GREENLAND’S misnomer is the result of a marketing campaign by Erik the Red who wished to attract Viking settlers to its icy landscape. Little did he know that the land had been covered in lush forests many millennia before he was born. Nor could he have fathomed that, a millennium after his death, the vast ice sheet would be in rapid retreat.
Several factors are to blame. First, a natural cycle known as the North Atlantic Oscillation is encouraging ice-melt. Then there is long-term warming driven by rising greenhouse-gas emissions. Third, climate change has also weakened the jet stream, allowing a warm and humid weather system to settle over northeastern Greenland.
The extent of the melting is not entirely unprecedented for this time of year. Researchers have seen similar events in 2002, 2007 and 2012. Each portended a record low at the end of the summer.
DinaPomeranz If only this had been predicted
BS. They just removed the signs from Glacier National Park that the glaciers would be all gone by 2020. They have actually enlarged.
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ProfSteveKeen All Icelandic Glaciers Are Expanding For The First Time In Decades via BruceSchuck
At the time this island got its name, Greenland, it was obviously green. Also, there were no fossil fuel combustion based economy. No diesels, no power plants. But the island was green.
Hope this is not fake news...
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We're on the brick of self anihilation!
KattyKay_ Very scary when the Greenland ice sheet totally melts.
ProfSteveKeen That isn't ideal. Meg9Time Yay? :/
It appears your statement i incorrect. DMI (Dansk Metrologiskt Insitut) report record growth last 3 winters
The new 'Hockey Stick' graph. We bought that lie for a while, but now we don't believe climate scientists anymore. If they shame and exclude the liars, they can restore faith.
Be complete not cowardice
'There is no global warming'
ProfSteveKeen Nope ProfSteveKeen , it is not so unusual see: . The chosen chart is highly suggestive but in fact such melt peaks are pretty common as the yearly data shows. It is bad enough without overly suggestive drama-graphs.
ProfSteveKeen Stop telling Greenland ice how to melt.
Productivism gave us that. Productivism still promises to solve it. And to make us immortal too. Hope you're right this time, productivism.
Research sponsor by the Clinton foundation, they want to destory the mining/fracking industry.
_mars75 Wasn't me
Its the climate change stupid.
Sustained action on climate change is a priority for world governments...we are seeing unprecedented extremes in weather climatechange 2degrees flexitarian
Relax
It’s interesting that graph is representing geometric acceleration. Hmm 🤔
I think you can use the word 'catastrophic' instead of 'unusual'
80%? How many really wet springs have there been in the US? 20%?
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It'll soon be living up to its name then!
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