Letter: Only one thing can cause all that ice to melt

The Aug. 2 Salt Lake Tribune article “Greenland sees massive ice melt in heat wave” stated that “More than 10 billion tons (11 billion U.S. tons) of ice were lost to the oceans by surface melt on Wednesday alone, creating a net mass ice loss of some 197 billion tons (217 billion U. S. tons) from Greenland in July.”It has also been reported, here and elsewhere, that glaciers are disappearing globally. That Earth’s total sea ice is melting (especially in the Arctic) a