Claim: "For several days in July of 2012, Greenland surface ice cover melted more than at any time in 30 years of satellite observation. During that month, an estimated 97% of the ice sheet thawed."
Fact-check: Hawaii Senator says 97 percent of Greenland's ice sheet thawed in July 2012; it was just surface ice
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: C. Eugene Emery Jr.
Date published: 2013-08-05T00:00:00