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Study claims Greenland losing ice sheet ‘faster than ever recorded’ – But history & realty differ

https://realclimatescience.com/2018/03/climate-science-greenland-ice-gain-is-the-fastest-melt-ever/

Climate scientists have announced that Greenland melting is the fastest in 400 years, and accelerating.

SCIENCE: Greenland ice sheet melting faster than ever recorded — Thursday, March 29, 2018

This is quite amazing, considering Greenland gained ice last year.

Greenland Ice Sheet’s 2017 weigh-in suggests a small increase in ice mass | NOAA Climate.gov

Greenland’s Petermann Glacier has been growing ten feet per day for the last five years.

https://go.nasa.gov/2ylEMDl

Greenland’s glaciers weren’t always growing though. Eighty years ago they were melting rapidly and facing catastrophic collapse.

17 Dec 1939, Page 15 – Harrisburg Sunday Courier at Newspapers.com

According to climate experts, expanding ice is melting the fastest on record, and the melt is accelerating.

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