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Don Sample wrote:

> Take away the ice and Greenland becomes a ring of mountains surrounding
> a large central basin, with a narrow channel to the ocean. Put an ice
> dam across that channel and it could hold a huge amount of fresh water.

That might work, but the lake has to be there. It'll take a long time
for all that ice to melt.

Just for fun, I've read speculation that Greenland was actually two or
more islands. That'd support the "basin in the middle".

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:43:02 -0400, Don Sample <dsample.TakeThisOut@synapse.net>
wrote:

>> the geography in greenland doesn't look like it would support the
>> formation of a large enough lake to do much to the gulf stream.
>
>Take away the ice and Greenland becomes a ring of mountains surrounding
>a large central basin, with a narrow channel to the ocean. Put an ice
>dam across that channel and it could hold a huge amount of fresh water.
>
>Of course, melting that ice would take quite a bit of warming. Some
>current studies show that the Greenland ice sheet is actually getting
>thicker because of global warming. Warming makes for more water vapour
>in the air, which makes for more snow falling in central Greenland.

without water underlaying the ice i don't see it melting the way that
ice shelf did in antarctica so the formation of the lake would be
something we'd have some time to think over.

do you think we'd allow the ice jam to last long enough to let the
lake build up to catastropic levels? i'd hope the gov't of denmark
would take steps to deal with it well before that happened.