Links tagged “greenland”

WSJ: World’s Ice Is Melting Faster Than Ever, Climate Scientists Say

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Meteorologist Joe D'Aleo rebuttal: "Arctic warming and the melting of the arctic ice are not at all unprecedented (they happen predictably on multidecadal scales with a period of around 60 years) and are in fact entirely natural."  ... 

"Greenland data suggests the recent warming falls far short of earlier warming periods during the current interglacial and short of the warming early in the 20th century. The Antarctic has cooled and ice has increased in recent years although volcanism near the Antarctic peninsula leads to local water warmth and sea ice melting. Prior to the recent melting, the ice cover reached a long-term record high." ... 

"Also we should note that the prescribed melting reported in the Science Journal can’t be claimed a long time record as global ocean data prior to the satellite (1980) and Argo Buoy era (post 2004) is spotty at best. Even if the claims about water released were true, computations show global sea level would rise just 4 inches/century (agreeing with global data) and not the up to 24 feet promised decades ago."

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