Last month, an unusually warm weather system swept across Greenland, triggering a widespread melting of surface ice and snow that typically occurs only once in a lifetime. Continue reading
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Greenland melting breaks record 4 weeks before season’s end
Melting over the Greenland ice sheet shattered the seasonal record on August 8 – a full four weeks before the close of the melting season, reports Marco Tedesco, assistant professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences at The City College of New York. Continue reading
With all this Greenland “meltdown”, what about those ducks?
Anyone remember Behar’s rubber ducky experiment? You know, the one where an untethered Moulin Explorer was dropped into a moulin alongside the great Jakobshavn outlet glacier in West Greenland – together with 90 rubber ducks. The Moulin Explorer is a PVC cylinder – about the size of an American football – which contained an accelerometer, a pressure transducer, GPS with satellite modem link, and an antenna; all powered by high-capacity lithium thionyl chloride batteries. Did it ever emerge and report home? And what about those ducks? Continue reading
Glacial Lakes May Affect Sea-Level Rise
“Scientists are tracking how water atop Greenland’s ice sheet pools and drains. The findings could help predict future rises in sea level“
Whatever became of the rubber ducky experiment where a bunch of the toys were flushed into Greenland meltwater a few years back. Any of them emerged yet? Or did they just refreeze into the bottom of the glacier? Continue reading
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Tagged climate hysteria, climate research, glacier melt, greenland
Greenland melt spawns iceberg threat in search for offshore oil
Yeah, there were no icebergs before SUVs (proof – Australian Aborigines have no word for “iceberg” in any of their languages!). Continue reading
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Tagged arctic, deepwater drilling, greenland, offshore drilling
Larry Bell: Goodness Glaciers! More Unprecedented Global Warming Meltdowns?
In July, the global warming hot lines were glowing red with shocking news: NASA scientists were stunned as images from three satellite showed “unprecedented” thawing at or near the surface over most of Greenland’s ice sheet. The event began on July 8, and lasted four days before refreezing. NASA ice scientist Tom Wagner observed, “You literally had this wave of warm air wash over the Greenland ice sheet and melt it.” Continue reading
Aerial photos reveal dynamic ice sheet
Despite the current and rapid melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, it remains far from certain just when we will have reached a point when scientists will be able to predict its disappearance. Continue reading
Doug L. Hoffman: Greenland’s Oscillating Glaciers
Melting glaciers are once again in the news, along with the associated threat of rising sea levels. Continue reading
Meltwater from Greenland glacier wipes out key crossing
“Scientists in Kangerlussuaq on western edge of ice sheet film runoff from glacier washing out roads and taking out a tractor“
Oh no! Not a tractor! Continue reading
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Tagged climate hysteria, glacier melt, greenland, weather superstition
Regularly repeated unprecedented event: The big thaw: Greenland ice cover is melting away
The vast ice sheet of Greenland, which holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 7.2 metres, underwent a remarkable transformation for a few days this month when scientists observed an unprecedented melting of its frozen surface. Continue reading
News Report “NASA: Sudden Massive Melt in Greenland” – My Comments On This Media Hype
The news headline, in particular, is an example of media hype. Continue reading
Trying hard to pitch this as new or novel: 97% of Greenland ice sheet [surface briefly] melting
“They described the event as being without precedent because such a massive loss of ice has not been observed by humans before, although estimates derived from studying old, compressed ice suggest that melts on this scale happen about once every 150 years.“
The Greenland ice sheet is melting at an “unprecedented” rate, according to NASA satellite data that shows 97 per cent of the vast mass is undergoing some form of melting.
“This was so extraordinary that at first I questioned the result: was this real or was it due to a data error?” a NASA researcher, Son Nghiem, said.
About half the ice sheet usually shows signs of melting in a northern hemisphere summer, but the satellite data shows that between July 8 and July 12 the melt extended to cover almost all of Greenland.
Illiteracy at NASA
Apparently NASA should start distributing dictionaries to the authors of its press releases. Continue reading
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Tagged climate fraud, climate hysteria, greenland, ice melt, weather superstition
GPS Can Now Measure Ice Melt, Change In Greenland Over Months Rather Than Years
“Researchers have found a way to use GPS to measure short-term changes in the rate of ice loss on Greenland – and reveal a surprising link between the ice and the atmosphere above it.“
That’s nice. Found a way to calculate longer term trends or get a useful history to put this data into context? Just wondering… Continue reading
Newsflash! Floating glacier does what floating glaciers do!
An ice island twice the size of Manhattan has broken off from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, according to researchers at the University of Delaware and the Canadian Ice Service. Continue reading
IBD: Facts Get In The Way–Again–Of A Good Global Warming Story
Hillary Clinton made a well-publicized trip last week to the Arctic to see for herself the impact of global warming. Less well known, however, are two reports that contradict the climate-change alarmists. Continue reading
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Tagged climate hysteria, dioxycarbophobia, glacier melt, greenland, weather superstition
WCR: Historical Imagery of Greenland Glaciers Lessens Sea Level Rise Alarm
A new study using historical images of glaciers in southeast Greenland to investigate glacier response to climate changes suggests that the recently observed acceleration of ice loss from Greenland may not be a long-term phenomenon. Continue reading
Luboš Motl: Knud Rasmussen pictures: Greenland is melting less quickly than 80 years ago
Knud Rasmussen (1879-1933) was a Danish polar explorer and the father of Eskimology. By an accident, 80-year-old pictures of the Greenland taken during his expeditions were just found in a Danish basement: Continue reading
Hockey Schtick: Paper finds Greenland unlikely to melt from climate change
A paper from a paleoclimatology workshop finds that the southern dome of Greenland did not melt away during the extreme natural climate change of the “Eemian interglacial (125,000 years ago), when annual mean temperatures over Greenland were [about] 5°C warmer than now for some millenia [thousands of years].” Continue reading
Greenland’s current loss of ice mass
Loss through melting and iceberg calving during the last 10 years is unusually high compared to the last 50 years Continue reading
