NASA scientists fly over Greenland to track melting ice

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019, icebergs are photographed from the window of an airplane carrying NASA Scientists as they fly on a mission to track melting ice in eastern Greenland. Greenland has been melting faster in the last decade and this summer, it has seen two of the biggest melts on record since 2012.

Water brings more heat to something frozen faster than air does, as anyone who has ever defrosted a steak under the faucet knows. Climate change is eating away at Greenland’s glaciers in two ways. The most obvious way is from the warm air above, which has been brutal this summer, with a European heat wave in July working like a hair dryer on the ice. The other way is from warm, salty water, some of it from North America’s Gulf Stream, nibbling at coastal glaciers from below.

To measure this, NASA is spending five years crisscrossing the island in a tricked-out 77-year-old DC-3 built for World War II. Willis, project manager Ian McCubbin and mechanic Rich Gill drop long, cylindrical probes through a special tube in the floor of the plane, watching as the sensors parachute down and then dive into the chilly water.

If the water is playing a much bigger role than scientists thought, it could mean seas will be rising faster and higher than expected. That’s because 90% of the heat energy from climate change goes into the oceans, Willis said. Warm water provides “a bigger bang for the buck” than air when it comes to melting ice, Willis said.

Was this done on their way to mars? 🛸

Did the 1.8 million gallons of COREXIT dumped into the Gulf and traveling up the North Atlantic Current contribute to the rapid melting of Greenland 's ice sheet?

HealthScience Trump wants the US to buy it...LMFAO

Greenland was once green, and will be green again

*to perform due diligence for the upcoming acquisition of Greenland

KnucklDraginSam Don’t forget the “Ice Age.” That didn’t work so let’s try something else!

Could be both...

And FYI Trump is looking to buy Greenland!!

It's a real mystery.

They are also trying to figure out why the Jacobshavn glacier is growing;

I've always thought estimates of rising ocean water were very understated. Looks like beachfront property could be moving inland much, much faster.

I am guessing neither is good.

Well. The land mass is heating up because of the ocean...thus more so the land mass than the air... but the air drops those black particles (from cars) on the ice and it is a third reason but more so than air temperature. There is a fourth way also, friction between land and ice.

how about both...

How come you are not reporting the fact that their readings were wrong and this summer were not the hottest tempetures ever?

Yeah the Earth supposed to be underwater in 12 years we're all going to die... the sky is falling.

Seems like a giant block of ice from Google Earth.

What if it's both?

My monies on the 'warm dirty air' speeding up , the meltingprocess !!! CarbonAbsorption BlackbodyEffect

It would be crucial to how environmental Nazis gonna lie.

Maybe it's the hot exhaust from their jet. Self fulfilling prophecy.

I hope they tell us before our 12years are up...

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Global warming and greenhouse gas effects.

Is there a carbon footprint calculated for this study? Presumably it was worth it. What else is worth its carbon footprint?

man give it up we're fucked !!! and that's that

SO does that add a couple of years to AOCs prediction of 12 years?

Or fairly well known sun cycles and increases in solar activity but that only gets you one grant.

That's not important right now - what is important is Trump doing something that we can all call racist or not? Or, if not can we use it to sling mud at him?

Seawater. Warm air is in the White House.

Either way reptiles win.

Warm air called 'summer'.

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