I live in Saskatchewan, Canada. I can assure everyone here that when the snow melts in the spring , our flat plains turn into rolling hills. And then back again, after the first flakes fall.... believe me. I've seen it.

Kate, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Linked yes, but as always viewed in the wrong direction by the "blame everything on global warming" loby. Call me old fashioned but usually snow and ice melts as a result of increased temperature such that could be caused by increased volcanic activity.

Max, Savoie, France

How can anyone argue that this article omits causation. It's obvious. Global warming makes for less ice to hold down the big, heavy rock, allowing more hot magma to develop. Cause, meet Effect. Don't let anyone try to tell you that increased build up of magma could be the cause of more melting ice. That's just too fantastic.

Here's another example. Where I live, in the northern US, this winter, the temperatures have been lower than they have been for decades. We have had more snowfall than we have seen in the past nearly 40 years. These conditions, as all but GW deniers well know, is one of the direct, predictable results of carbon dioxide emissions, which cause bitter cold and record snowfall when they are not overheating and melting things.

I personally have observed that the mountains visible from my living room window have become shorter, due to the massive snow accumulations. This process seems to be reversing itself due to the GW-caused melting.

jprimmer, South Ryegate, Vermont, USA

Interesting that physics had to be turned on it's ear to get this all to work out. For example, the author claims that the pressure from the ice prevented the rock from turning into magma... in fact, the pressure should have increased the amount of rock that was forming magma. As Boyle demonstrated to us many years ago, that when one adds pressure to a constant volume, the the temperature rises!

BOB, Tucson, Arizona

Another group of university quasi-scientists grovelling for funding by piggy-backing on the Global Warming theory.
There have been four Ice Ages in the Earth's history, and outside those periods the Earth has been largely ice free - including the Arctic and Antarctic areas.
During the last Ice Age - about 11,000 years ago - The huge weight (volume) of ice that formed over the Northern area of the Eurasian Tectonic Plate gradually raised the Southern area of the plate, which had far less ice. ( Rather like a see-saw) Since then, the ice has receded, and the Northern area is now rising, whilst the Southern area sinks - thus the plate plate returns to its former state.
Global Warming the cause - Humbug!

Desmond, Barnstaple, Devon

I don't see the cause and effect. Two things have occured, decreasing ice sheets (I'll take your dubious word for it) and increased volcanic activity. You have not in any way even attemped to show causation. There are many, many other possible theories for the increased volcanism. Have you ever heard of plate tectonics? Can you rule that out or even assign a percentage or responsibility to one or the other? No you can't. Maybe a land mass rising at 82' ! per year will cause ice to cleave off and break into smaller bits, thereby causing it to melt faster. One more thing, a 10% decrease in the ice causes and 82' per year uplift? That's like holding down an elephant with a thumb tack.

Ralph, Tyrone, PA

Many of your readers may not be aware that it is very well established that volcanic eruptions spew large amounts of dust into the atmosphere, blocking and reflecting incoming sunlight, and thus causing global cooling. It is interesting that this may possibly represent a feedback mechanism that can ultimately protect the world from excessive global warming. If so, we may all be able to breathe a sigh of relief.

Dr. Robert Koslover, Tyler, Texas, USA

Pretty impressive! The area that was under the ice cap has been rising by 25 meters per year, presumably for the last 118 years. So now there is a mountain there nearly 10,000 ft tall where before there was a flat plain? Remarkable!

Michael Ryan, gloucester Pt., Virginia, USA

This does not pass the sanity test.

Maybe it's the magma that is melting the ice? If so, their "global warming" theory is no good.

A land mass rising up to 82' a year - if that were true, we'd see a lot more than what we're seeing.

Finally, why is Greenland's ice mass increasing? The two countries are very close to each other, get the same reactions from the Atlantic Ridge

nare, Mpls, MN