New York University air and ocean scientist David Holland, who is tracking what's happening in Greenland from both above and below, calls it"the end of the planet." He is referring to geography more than the future. Yet in many ways this place is where the planet's warmer and watery future is being written.
In just the five days from July 31 to Aug. 3, more than 58 billion tons melted from the surface. That's over 40 billion tons more than the average for this time of year. And that 58 billion tons doesn't even count the huge calving events or the warm water eating away at the glaciers from below, which may be a huge factor.
This year is coming near but not quite passing the extreme summer of 2012 — Greenland's worst year in modern history for melting, scientists report. Those ice cliffs are somewhere between 225 feet and 328 feet high. Just next to them are Helheim's remnants — sea ice, snow and icebergs — forming a mostly white expanse, with a mishmash of shapes and textures. Frequently water pools amid that white, glimmering a near-fluorescent blue that resembles windshield wiper fluid or Kool-Aid.
Oh OK, of course you claim we'll all be dead before then.
When my nearly 76-year-old mother was a child, the prediction was a global Ice Age. Everything would literally be frozen. In my 52 years, the opposite was forecast ... ice melt. Large portions of the U.S. under water by now. Um ...
It’s NEVER going to matter to people living now as much as it will to people not living yet.
And so taking $$$$ from people/countries will stop this? WHAT F-ING BULLSHIT
Obama buys house right on Atlantic ocean. If Obama doesn’t believe this why should we
Umm... Barry Soetoro and Big Mike don't believe your leftist global warming hysteria.
Well the Obamas will be knee deep in water won’t they!
Nobody talks about one of the coolest winters in Southern US, coldest February on record in Alberta or how Alberta has had a cool summer for 3rd year in a row . Frost warning in the middle of August? Why no mention this ?WTF is with that?
Yet, here we are with the 'record breaking heat and ice melt' and not one millimeter of rise in sea level.
Gotta do something ClimateChange
Total BS. How much surface area do all the world's water bodies cover compared to Green land? This ice sheet would have to be, and this is a facetious estimate, hundreds of miles tall to even begin to affect such a change.
Mörner on Sea Level Rise
BS water weighs more than ice, but ice takes up more volume or space than water so Ice melting would be less volume
EnemyOfThePeople! Hey GStephanopoulos How many children did you diddle on pedo island? Pervert
Earth has gone through this before see Roman Warming Period.
Mother nature through the eras has been ice to heat Cretaceous/Mesozoic, bottom line.
Trump wants to by it. Sell!
its 64 degrees in the Midwest right now. Fahrenheit.
Build a water pipeline to harness energy and deliver water to other areas in need rather than have it flow into the sea. We have to come up with alternative solutions.
NASA says by 2100 so they don't cause mass hysteria and panic. It will be way sooner than that.
According to Al Gore the north and south poles should have been ice free since 2013.
Trump is offering to buy their problem so, Greenland should sell why the selling is still good... 😃
Oh no the Obama’s 15 million dollar mansion will be under water
When did we start keeping records? Wake me up when hippos and monkeys could range farther north than britain like during the last and prior interglacials.
Yes who has done anything except asking for more money. One guy made big propaganda made millions and walked away. Others want more appropriation.
Always the same. Apocalypse is coming...in the far,far future! FakeNewsScare :)))
Still perpetuating GoresHoax...
Has anyone told obama?
Climate bern changing for Billions of years Only difference now is Democrats want to make money off of it! Obama just bought 15 million dollar home..think of all the energy that house will use...not even using solar panels! HYPOCRITES!
That's great news!
You keep this up and Trump will lowball his starting offer. Leaky ice sheet.
The problem with talking about 2100 none of us can envisage this. My cousin's baby is due boxing day. This will be in her lifetime. doitforourchildren
notmypresident realDonaldTrump is GUILTY
Trump orders everyone to turn their AC to combat the meltdown
none of us will be around by then
No more snow, cities under water, empty dams ... this year is the 30th anniversary of the UN saying we only have 10 years to fix the climate. Yawn.
More left wing propaganda.
BS
Oh for Pete's sake you fools have been predicting this crap since the 1970's and none of it has come true.
Fake news.
climate is not in a crisis. It did not bring record breaking heat to Greenland. Ice sheets reform in the winter. It will never raise the level of the sea. Nasa scientist have been wrong many times., Predictions have never come true. Or we would if been dead 50 years ago
California just endured a winter/ spring rainfall of 120% of normal. Spare us the Saul Alinsky rules for radicals Communist tactics.
Also - there's no standardized method for recording Earth's temperatures. So your data is worthless scientifically
If sea rise were a threat, Obama wouldn't have paid $15 million for oceanfront property
It's so bad the Obamas just spent 16 million on a seaside mansion. Obviously terrified of the pending doom. Of course, fake news is right on board with the marxist fairytale.
Well if thousands of planes would stop spraying those chemicals all over the planet... The planet can take care of itself.
Fun fact: not a shred of proof exists for AGW
BREAKING NEWS: Summer is hotter than winter.
That is why we need to buy it.
Did Bill Ritter write this?
That’s why we need to buy it
Do you know what’s a bigger crisis than climate? Your ratings No one listens to NASA anymore! They’re frauds
August 23rd and it's only 74 degrees today in Louisville Kentucky...
More like media in CRISIS!
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Unbelievable BS
And 6 to 8 feet by 2180, 9 to12 feet by 2260,and so on. FakeNewsScare :)))
My Disappointment is That President Trump won't be Able to see his Mar a Lago Property submerge in Water. But I Hope My Relative's Will be Able To Visit His grave site and spit on his Grave!
A what time in earth existence was there no climate change?
Greenland again huh? What's going on over there. Human trafficking has went up there and what's up with the names. Hollo land ? Peary land? 🤮🔫
Guess I am glad to live in the heart of Texas then!
The earth has been around for 4.5 billion years. Human civilizations started forming about 6,000 years ago. The earth will be here for along time after we’re gone. The earth will be just fine.
Thompson's eight imperatives will attack climate change. Converting our power grid to solar power where every home and business...its own power supply. Only EV cars be sold in America. And that's just the beginning. Thompson for president 2020 American people's Action Party
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Just history
That’s why realDonaldTrump wanted to buy it to black mail the rest of the world
But there's a problem the glaciers are growing lol NASA photos
Key word is Could. These people cant predict if its going to rain correctly so why would we believe this BS?
Or not.
A future generation will listen to how their great-great-great-grandpa dreamt of the day long ago as he envisioned a new kingdom of sorts. His great-great-great granddaughter will be happy at the memory of what could have been, but now is.. ..Trumpville! He would be so proud!
The Amazon is burning.
So why did obama buy a waterfront mansion
Blackjack!
Trump will fix this!
for the time being melt on PAUSE; Help the energy companies with owning a better SOLUTION; help them to transition to a better method of sourcing energy; BeTheSolution
More fake climate crap... This has happened before in the 1920's. You know, when CO2 levels were much lower apparently...
You better get Al Gore on it
Propaganda Fake News! 🇺🇸
Some guy with an art degree from Berkeley telling me about the glaciers.
Won't they feel silly when we're dead in 12 years.
Fossil fuel executives have committed crimes against humanity, and world leaders have been complicit. They should all be prosecuted
Come on we aren’t that gullible...
WorldNews Heard this 🐂💩 fifty years ago and my beach chair is still in the same spot!
Translation: Give us your money now so we can tax you until you break and we become a socialist country. Redistribution if wealth is the end game right?
Could, may, maybe, or nothing!!!
So yu'd better start building a wall along the coastline. borderwall sealevelrise
wsbtv If the ice melts so what? Let it melt.
do the amazon next
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Also add: less sunlight will be reflected back out to space, causing the oceans and earth to warm more and exponentially speed up the warming!
'Greenland’s surface has gained 1,250 billion tons of ice over the past three years, about 250 billion tons above the 1981-2010 mean.'
It’s not you it’s not CO2 it’s the sun
BS....more climate change crap
Trump probably wants to buy Greenland so he can lie about the ice melting.
It may be in the stratum in equilibrium whole earth, and the ground surface may have been cooled with it. Methane hydrate may begin to gasify, dehydrate and melt at something stimulus. That may be the cause of global warming.
No it hasn’t. That is complete nonsense and totally Fake News. Do you ever Fact Check, actually do any journalism? Greenland has gained 250,000,000,000 tonnes of ice in the last three years.
Fun fact: Not a shred of proof exists for AGW
ClimateChangeIsReal
Can you please also report on the fact that the Amazon rainforest is burning?
I guess that means GStephanopoulos will sell his Hampton estate
Ahhh, that's why Trump wants to buy it - IF ANYONE IS GONNA GET CREDIT FOR DESTROYING THE WORLD, IT GONNA BE DONALD J TRUMP
Clue me on when there was a time when the climate was not changing ?
So has is there a blob of water that high floating around looking for a state to flood?
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Rotterdam , Nederland now have floating cow farms . Holland is taking climate control to en higher level of feeding there country .
You forgot to include the information that Greenland's largest glacier STOPPED melting, and has been GROWING at 20m a year. Interesting conundrum
Yeah, summer is the warmest season. Thanks for the info. Winter is coming.
BuyGreenland
Is that all? Thought it would’ve been at least 500 billion tons.
Better watch the movie Water World again!
It is summer. Ice melts in summer and freezes in winter. This isn’t even the biggest melt. Even the article says so. Alarmist!
If they don’t sell it to us I’ll burn a bunch of tires just to melt more of the ice🤷♂️
That number is staggering.
We can’t survive this. Can we? Glaciers that have been there 4 what?Millions of years? It sounds like it’s 2 late now.That ice is melting, &the oceans r rising. People will suffer&die. I hope the 🍊💩 is at Mar a Lego when the whole state of Florida floods.I doubt he can swim.
Will that reduce or increase Greenland’s value for purposes of sale? Come to think of it, is there much of anything beneath all that ice? 🏝
More reasons for GreenlandPurchase
'but I want Greenland' -realDonaldTrump
Where is the water cascading to?
Buy Greenland now! Supplies are limited! Call 1-800-ICE-SALE! Operators are standing by!
At the end everything will take it’s course but it’s not the end!
Globally though this is insignificant.
We all knew the scientists were wrong about the timeline. Once China & India joined the industrialized world the acceleration began.
“Make Greenland Green again” says Trump
Fear mongering
Blah blah blah
Our days are numbered, enjoy today
But won’t impact Al Gore’s beachfront property
Holy shit... that puts it in a scary perspective
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