Links tagged “greenland”

Paul Homewood's polar report:

'Arctic sea ice extent, while low this year, is running well above the record low in 2012.'

'Arctic temperatures are not “rising twice as fast as the global average”. Indeed they have nor risen at all since 2004, and current temperatures are similar to those in the 1930s and 40s.'

'Greenland's growth in the ice sheet this year has been virtually in line with 1981-2010 mean, following one of the shortest melt seasons in recent years'

NOAA reported in 2019 that 'Greenland’s outlet glaciers have barely shrunk at all in the last eight years'

Antarctic 'sea ice extent is expanding well above the mean as it approaches its maximum extent'

2010 Prediction by UN IPCC's Prof. Richard Alley, a Pennsylvania State University: "Sometime in the next decade we may pass that tipping point which would put us warmer than temperatures that Greenland can survive." 

2020 Update: Paul Homewood's analysis: "Since then, however, Greenland’s temperatures have returned to normal, and are no higher than they were in the 1930s. Far from being the start of a new trend, 2010 was simply an outlier:

The Peterman Glacier is still more or less in the same position as it was ten years ago

Greenland’s major glaciers stopped retreating seven years ago

"A new reconstruction for SE Greenland (1796-2013) shows temperatures have risen and fallen without any hockey-stick-like trajectories for the last 200+ years. Temperatures were warmer than today in the 1920s and 1940s and even briefly during the 1800s."