New study admits Greenland’s surface is gaining ice, but claims it ‘could lose more mass than it gains by 2055’

https://realclimatescience.com/2021/02/greenland-a-new-study-says/

A new study admits that Greenland’s surface is gaining ice, but says this will change by the year 2055 due to CO2.

The surface of Greenland’s ice sheet could lose more mass than it gains by 2055, a new study says – ArcticToday

The surface mass balance data for the Greenland Ice Sheet from the Danish Meteorological Institute shows that over the past five years, the surface of Greenland has averaged a gain of about 400 billion tons per year, which is slightly above the 1981-2010 mean.

Surface Conditions: Polar Portal

But the press tells us that Greenland melting is the fastest in 12,000 years.

Greenland’s ice sheet is melting as fast as at any time in the last 12,000 years, study shows – CNN

Greenland is melting | VOA Special Report

The largest ice cap in Greenland didn’t exist 4,000 years ago, because temperatures were too warm during the Holocene Optimum.

From the 1990 IPCC Report.

1990 IPCC Report

Trees grew all the way to the edge of the Arctic Ocean.

But no worries, scientists have now erased the Holocene Optimum.

Scientists solve a major climate mystery, confirming Earth is hotter than it’s been in at least 120 centuries | Space

Eighty years ago, the glaciers of Greenland were nearing catastrophic collapse.

17 Dec 1939, Page 15 – Harrisburg Sunday Courier

18 Feb 1952 – POLAR ICE THAW INCREASING

Greenland’s largest glacier shrank rapidly during the second half of the 19th century.

05 Dec 1903, Page 7 – The Catholic Advance at Newspapers.com

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 14, 14-25

But that glacier is growing now, and National Geographic says it is bad news.

A Greenland glacier is growing. That’s not good news

The largest glacier in Northern Greenland (Petermann) has also grown since 2012

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