The ice is melting at twice the normal rate?!?! And it could be related to the "wildfires currently raging in Alaska and Canada". I have a family connection in the Aleutian Islands and hear that similar wildfires are burning in Siberia. So add that in. This will greatly exacerbate the rate of rising ocean levels. You would THINK that Americans would be more interested in impacts of global climate change, but you'd never know it from the lackadaisical response to your posts on DU. Keep up your effort, please.

The high temperatures in Europe have been more eye-popping, clearing 100°F from Spain to the Netherlands and setting an all-time July temperature record at London’s Heathrow Airport. But temperatures in the upper 30s and low 40s are still doing a number on Greenland’s ice sheet. Estimates from the National Snow and Ice Data Center indicate that roughly half the ice sheet’s surface is melting, well above the average of around 25 percent for this time of year.

In addition to warmer than normal temperatures, Greenland’s ice sheet has been getting steadily darker. This year currently ranks as the third-darkest on record for early July.
The darker the ice sheet is, the more incoming radiation from the sun is absorbed and the more it can melt. Water is darker than snow, but dust as well as soot from wildfires can also be swept up from far off locales and deposited on the ice sheet. It’s unclear if the wildfires currently raging in Alaska and Canada are having an impact.

That the threat is already here....

Change is in the air, the question now is, how fast will that change alter our present societies....

I fear more for our children,

he plans on addressing Climate Change head on for real. It will take a lot on the Bully Pulpit to get things going in the right direction, but he/we can do it!