<P> A paper on Greenland's temperature record shows that the warmest year on record was 1941 while the warmest decades were the 1930s and 1940s . The data used was from stations on the south and west coasts, most of which did not operate continuously the entire study period . </P> <P> While Arctic temperatures have generally increased, there is some discussion concerning the temperatures over Greenland . First of all, Arctic temperatures are highly variable, making it difficult to discern clear trends at a local level . Also, until recently, an area in the North Atlantic including southern Greenland was one of the only areas in the World showing cooling rather than warming in recent decades, but this cooling has now been replaced by strong warming in the period 1979--2005 . </P>

Official estimates of the volume of ice on greenland