Andrew C. Revkin in a New York Times in a January 8, 2008 article reveals a daunting reporting on the melting surface of Greenland.

As stated by Revkin:

"For a lengthening string of warm years, a lacework of blue lakes and rivulets of meltwater have been spreading ever higher on the ice cap (cloaking Greenland).  The melting surface darkens, absorbing up to four times as much energy from the sun as unmelted snow, which reflects sunlight.  Natural drainpipes called moulins carry water from the surface into the depths, in some places reaching bedrock.  The process slightly, but measurably, lubricates and accelerates the grinding passage of ice toward the sea."

Glaciologists report the breakup of huge semi submerged clots of ice "where some large Greenland glaciers, particularly along the west coast, squeeze through fjords as they meet the warming ocean.  As these passages have cleared, this has sharply accelerated the flow of many of these creeping, corrugated, frozen rivers."