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clampie t1_j12kzsl wrote

I read recently about the increase in underglacier volcanic activity in the area.

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ialsoagree t1_j13p658 wrote

You're probably thinking of Antarctica, but even there volcanic activity is having very little impact.

There are no active volcanoes in Greenland, and no underwater volcanoes for at least the past few million years.

There was a hot spot under Greenland, but that was millions of years ago (EDIT: there may in fact still be a hot spot that is cooling, regardless, a hot spot that's existed for millions of years can't explain why ice is melting now) and it has since moved to Iceland:

https://climate.nasa.gov/ask-nasa-climate/2982/fire-and-ice-why-volcanic-activity-is-not-melting-the-polar-ice-sheets/

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