These photos are proof positive that climate change is real in Greenland. This is Thule Air Base today, late May or early June, with the dock jutting out into sea water and Saunders Island to its right essentially fully surrounded. Hardly a piece of floating ice in sight.

In the picture below, taken on June 10, 1961, the ship that supplied electric power to the base at that time is seen surrounded by a protective ring moat with the water within the moat kept liquid by the constant injection of heated compressed air. Outside the moat the sea ice is six feet thick.

 The following day, June 11th, 1961, I photographed this Inuit camped out on the sea ice between the Base and Saunder's Island. He and his father were seal hunting at "blow holes" caused by the crushing of the sea ice by bergs as they move out from the calving edge of glaciers and head south in the sea. Air temperature was in the single digits.

Now head back to the top of the page and look again: Open sea water at temperatures above freezing. Same month, just sixty years later. Global warming?