In the book Mother Natures Super Salesman put it like this; Excerpt

“During the summer of 2005 we got started on breaking some records for melting of the Greenland ice sheet. Offering to destabilize large parts of the ice sheet on timescales measured in years or decades, not millennia. Just to emphasize the point,” said the super salesman, “in 2007 the summer melt on Greenland broke the 2005 record by 10 percent making it the largest melt recorded since satellite measurements began in 1979.”

“Pop in for a visit to Swiss Camp, a research station established in 1990, and take a trip over to the newly expanding ‘Greenland Lake District’ where some lakes cover six kilometers. We could set up a bit of water skiing for those interested. These have been set up by Mother Nature as reservoirs for the destruction of the ice sheet, so you’ll have to be quick if you want to get in some sailing. The lakes grow until they find a crevasse that provides an opportunity for them to drain into the extensive river systems beneath the ice and the hard bedrock, providing lubrication for the ice sheet before emerging at the glacier’s snout. On your trip you might like to view one of the waterfalls that run as much as 3 kilometers high taking the meltwater all the way to the bedrock. We once thought this would take ten thousand years but we can now see the lakes empty into moulins (vertical shafts) in just ten seconds. You’ll need to book your trip soon while we have some ice left for the gin and tonic. On offer is a day trip to the Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier. You can spot her on the 700-kilometer trip west to Baffin Bay.”

“This we think has some history, providing the nudge that sank the Titanic in 1912,” said the super salesman. “Who says you can’t make money from disaster, the film made millions!”

Since 1997 the speed has doubled and now at 15 kilometers per year it claims the world land speed record for glaciers. At that rate Baffin Bay can have the whole glacier within approximately sixty years. In the meantime from the Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier we can offer meltwater of somewhere in the region of 50 cubic kilometers per year, enough to fill up the Nile as it responds to climate change, if you can get it there. The heater is working well on glacial speed all over the Greenland ice sheet and the thinning of the ice sheet for some, has reached a critical point and begun to drastically change the glacier’s dynamics.

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