The latest edition of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World reveals a somewhat different picture of Greenland than in the edition of the book which was published in 1999.
In the 13th edition, Greenland is shown to have lost some of its permanent ice cover, although a press release erroneously claiming it has lost nearly 15 percent of its ice has since been retracted. It is just one of the pictures illustrating the impact global warming is having on our planet.
In 2006, Uunartoq Qeqertaq appeared off the country’s east coast. It is one of the world’s newest discovered islands and is situated some 340 miles above the Arctic Circle. The land was revealed after global warming caused Greenland’s ice to melt and retreat.
Cartographers have decided to include it in the Atlas because they consider it now to be a permanent feature of Greenland’s geography. The name of the island is, appropriately, the Inuit term for Warming Island. Another change to the picture of Greenland is the brown colour which appears around its coasts. This represents land that is now exposed and represents around a 300,000 sq km area of melted ice.
Editor of the atlas, Jethro Lennox, said: “We are increasingly concerned that in the near future important geographical features will disappear forever. Greenland could reach a tipping point in about 30 years.”
The picture of Antarctica has changed as well. The breaking off of the Wilkins and Larsen B ice shelves mean that it no longer takes up so much space on the page.
(Photos: Anders Peter Amsnæs)
Alex thank you for as usual allowing open criticisms and making correction.
That is what makes IceNews worth my and other’s time and better than other most so call main stream media usually.
@Fisy,
Thank you for your comment. IceNews never deliberately seeks to mislead its readers and the majority of this article remains factually correct. However, your point has been taken into close consideration and the article has been amended slightly to reflect that.
Thanks, as always, for reading IceNews
Alëx, editor
It seems that some people do not agree with the Greenland’s Times atlas map: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14969399
Whis is IceNews promoting fallacies in its article when it is already fallacy well known by today on date of publishing this article ?!
Except for this weak statement whole rest of article is misleading fallacy that has already been exposed :
>Scientists have since started questioning the accuracy of the Times Atlas; many
>saying it shows Greenland has lost more ice than it actually has.
I do not come to IceNews to be misled in the articles.
All other articels recently on this subject have had head lines like:
‘Times Atlas ‘wrong’ on Greenland ice ‘
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14969399
Why? Because they GOT it WRONG. Badly enough that publishers Harpler Collins have issued apology :
http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/News_and_Events/News/Pages/Clarification-on-The-Times-Comprehensive-Atlas-of-the-World-13th-edition.aspx
20 September 2011:
“.. For the launch of the latest edition of the atlas (The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, 13th edition), we issued a press release which unfortunately has been misleading with regard to the Greenland statistics.
We came to these statistics by comparing the extent of the ice cap between the 10th and 13th editions (1999 vs 2011) of the atlas. The conclusion that was drawn from this, that 15% of Greenland’s once permanent ice cover has had to be erased, was highlighted in the press release not in the Atlas itself.
This was done without consulting the scientific community and was incorrect. We apologize for this and will seek the advice of scientists on any future public statements. We stand by the accuracy of the maps in this and all other editions of The Times Atlas. ”
Worse for them it seems they might have been lazy and taken map they used by adapting the WRONG map ( on Greenland ice sheet THICKness) from Wikipedia !
http://omniclimate.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/times-atlas-suicide-by-wikipedia/