11 billion tons of ice melted in Greenland — in just one day

[2aguy]

Yes.....according to the religion of man made global warming...this is how you appease their global warming gods...

Give more power over your life to the global warming priesthood....they will keep the global warming god in check.

Give more tax money to the global warming priesthood.....they will use that money to build temples to the global warming god, to travel in big airplanes in pilgrimages to holy sites like in Paris, and other really nice places.......

Give the global warming priesthood the power to punish those who doubt the god of the global warming religion......

that should do it.

 

[2aguy]

The Arctic is on fire. Record-breaking temperatures and strong winds are fueling an unprecedented number of wildfires across the region this summer. In Siberia alone, hundreds of wildfires captured by satellite images July 28 spanned about 3 million hectares of land. Across Alaska, as many as 400 wildfires were burning as of mid-July. And the heat is also melting Greenland’s ice at an alarming rate.

Do you understand why Greenland was called Greenland.......when the various peoples landed on Greenland with their primitive boats......there was no ice or snow........it was all Green.....hence the name, Greenland......

The earth warms, the earth cools.....because of the sun, not man.

Put away your robes and your Mitre...the man made global warming religion worships a false god.

 

[Rigby5]

Greenland lost 11 billion tons of ice in one day. How does that melt compare to the past?

Scientists announced Thursday that July equaled, if not surpassed, the hottest month in recorded history. But that was not the only cause for concern.

Greenland's ice sheet melted at its most rapid rate so far this summer summer on Thursday, losing 11 billion tons of surface ice to the ocean, according to data from the Polar Portal, a website run by Danish polar research institutions, and the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

More links to this story.

The Arctic is burning and Greenland is melting, thanks to record heat

The Arctic's ice sheet is melting at a rapid rate: 11 billion tons in one day

In related news;

More than 150 Shark Sightings Recorded Off Coast of Massachusetts

https://www.usnews.com/news/nationa...sightings-recorded-off-coast-of-massachusetts

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/sharks-cape-cod-trnd/index.html

That's GREAT news! Maybe someday itll be as warm as when the Vikings settled there.

When the Vikings settle there, it was warm local weather temporarily, not a much warmer global climate, as it is now.
The melting of Greenland ice will pour fresh cold water over the warm salty Gulf Stream, causing it to submerge.
That means no more Gulf Stream warming for Europe.
Even notice that Europe is near the Arctic Circle?
It is going to drop about 20 degrees in temperature if the Greenland ice melt continues.

{...
The mighty Gulf Stream, which keeps Northern Europe and parts of Western Russia warmer than other parts of the world that share their latitude, may collapse if greenhouse gas emissions persist, an international team of researchers warns.

Global warming and the melting ice may seriously weaken the powerful Gulf Stream current and ultimately lead to its collapse, which would have incalculable consequences for precipitation, sea ice, sea levels and natural calamities in the North Atlantic and elsewhere on Earth, an international group of researchers predict in an study which was published in the scientific magazine Geophysical Research Letters.

According to Danish climate professor Sebastian H. Mernild, CEO of the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center in Bergen, Norway, the melting of, above all, the Greenland Ice Sheet may result in a marked freshwater influx that could substantially weaken the Atlantic Ocean's intricate system of surface and deep ocean currents, including the Gulf Stream, which is responsible for keeping Europe temperate, Danish newspaper Berlingske reported.

The rise of the meltwater from the Greenland Ice Sheet is expected to be accelerated by the growing density of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Therefore, the balance of the ocean currents may be upset at a faster pace.

In the study, two scenarios were suggested. In the "good" one, which is predicated on the assumption that the world will succeed in overriding the global carbon dioxide curve by the 2040s, the Gulf Stream will "only" be weakened by about 18 percent by the end of the 21st century.

In the nightmare "business as usual" scenario, which anticipates that carbon dioxide emissions will grow as before, the Gulf Stream will have lost about 37 percent of its strength by 2100. By around 2300, the colossal hot water pump will have lost about 75 percent of its momentum and will have a 44 percent risk of collapsing completely, the researchers concluded.
...}
Melting Greenland Ice to Stop Gulf Stream, Plunge Europe Into Cold

 

[2aguy]

Greenland lost 11 billion tons of ice in one day. How does that melt compare to the past?

Scientists announced Thursday that July equaled, if not surpassed, the hottest month in recorded history. But that was not the only cause for concern.

Greenland's ice sheet melted at its most rapid rate so far this summer summer on Thursday, losing 11 billion tons of surface ice to the ocean, according to data from the Polar Portal, a website run by Danish polar research institutions, and the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

More links to this story.

The Arctic is burning and Greenland is melting, thanks to record heat

The Arctic's ice sheet is melting at a rapid rate: 11 billion tons in one day

In related news;

More than 150 Shark Sightings Recorded Off Coast of Massachusetts

https://www.usnews.com/news/nationa...sightings-recorded-off-coast-of-massachusetts

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/sharks-cape-cod-trnd/index.html

That's GREAT news! Maybe someday itll be as warm as when the Vikings settled there.

When the Vikings settle there, it was warm local weather temporarily, not a much warmer global climate, as it is now.
The melting of Greenland ice will pour fresh cold water over the warm salty Gulf Stream, causing it to submerge.
That means no more Gulf Stream warming for Europe.
Even notice that Europe is near the Arctic Circle?
It is going to drop about 20 degrees in temperature if the Greenland ice melt continues.

{...
The mighty Gulf Stream, which keeps Northern Europe and parts of Western Russia warmer than other parts of the world that share their latitude, may collapse if greenhouse gas emissions persist, an international team of researchers warns.

Global warming and the melting ice may seriously weaken the powerful Gulf Stream current and ultimately lead to its collapse, which would have incalculable consequences for precipitation, sea ice, sea levels and natural calamities in the North Atlantic and elsewhere on Earth, an international group of researchers predict in an study which was published in the scientific magazine Geophysical Research Letters.

According to Danish climate professor Sebastian H. Mernild, CEO of the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center in Bergen, Norway, the melting of, above all, the Greenland Ice Sheet may result in a marked freshwater influx that could substantially weaken the Atlantic Ocean's intricate system of surface and deep ocean currents, including the Gulf Stream, which is responsible for keeping Europe temperate, Danish newspaper Berlingske reported.

The rise of the meltwater from the Greenland Ice Sheet is expected to be accelerated by the growing density of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Therefore, the balance of the ocean currents may be upset at a faster pace.

In the study, two scenarios were suggested. In the "good" one, which is predicated on the assumption that the world will succeed in overriding the global carbon dioxide curve by the 2040s, the Gulf Stream will "only" be weakened by about 18 percent by the end of the 21st century.

In the nightmare "business as usual" scenario, which anticipates that carbon dioxide emissions will grow as before, the Gulf Stream will have lost about 37 percent of its strength by 2100. By around 2300, the colossal hot water pump will have lost about 75 percent of its momentum and will have a 44 percent risk of collapsing completely, the researchers concluded.
...}
Melting Greenland Ice to Stop Gulf Stream, Plunge Europe Into Cold

Yeah...if it gets cooler it will be because the sun is slowing down with it's solar flare activity....

And glaciers over volcanoes melt...

Volcanic activity is melting this Antarctic glacier from below

 

[Rigby5]

I got a question.

The OP's link only shows temps going back about 150 years. The planet is 4.5 BILLION YEARS OLD.

So what happened to the polar ice caps for the other 99.99999% of the earths lifetime?

They use ice cores to trace back, and they see a normal pattern of ice ages and warming that alternates in a cycle about 110,000 years long.
While the cycling then is normal, we have artificially accelerated it down to only 200 years, and the artificial cycle we created is totally out of sync with the natural one. With the natural one, we are at the end of the hottest, and it is supposed to be cooling off now. So the artificial heat wave we created actually is worse than it seems, because the natural cooling is canceling some of the artificial one.

 

[Rigby5]

Yes.....according to the religion of man made global warming...this is how you appease their global warming gods...

Give more power over your life to the global warming priesthood....they will keep the global warming god in check.

Give more tax money to the global warming priesthood.....they will use that money to build temples to the global warming god, to travel in big airplanes in pilgrimages to holy sites like in Paris, and other really nice places.......

Give the global warming priesthood the power to punish those who doubt the god of the global warming religion......

that should do it.

Nonsense.
Those warning of global warming are suggesting that we simply spend less money on burning so much fossil fuel.
That does not increase taxes or demand a cent out of anyone.
They instead suggest we do things to save money, like more mass transit, more efficient appliances, etc.

 

[Rigby5]

And how would we measure this? Got the data used to come up with this? How did they weigh the ice before and after?

You can't weigh a glacier. But it is pretty obvious when it just totally disappears.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...er_1973.jpg/300px-Whitechuck_glacier_1973.jpg
White Chuck Glacier in 1973

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...er_2006.jpg/300px-Whitechuck_glacier_2006.jpg
Same vantage point in 2006. The glacier retreated 1.9 kilometres (1.2 mi) in 30 years.

 

[progressive hunter]

I got a question.

The OP's link only shows temps going back about 150 years. The planet is 4.5 BILLION YEARS OLD.

So what happened to the polar ice caps for the other 99.99999% of the earths lifetime?

there is no proof the planet is 4.5 billion yrs old,, thats a made up number,,

the truth is we have no idea how old it is,,

and dont worry the planet will always be fine, if we humans become a problem it will shake us off like fleas on a dogs ass and go on like nothing happened,,,

 

[2aguy]

Yes.....according to the religion of man made global warming...this is how you appease their global warming gods...

Give more power over your life to the global warming priesthood....they will keep the global warming god in check.

Give more tax money to the global warming priesthood.....they will use that money to build temples to the global warming god, to travel in big airplanes in pilgrimages to holy sites like in Paris, and other really nice places.......

Give the global warming priesthood the power to punish those who doubt the god of the global warming religion......

that should do it.

Nonsense.
Those warning of global warming are suggesting that we simply spend less money on burning so much fossil fuel.
That does not increase taxes or demand a cent out of anyone.
They instead suggest we do things to save money, like more mass transit, more efficient appliances, etc.

You don't understand the man made global warming priesthood....

 

[skookerasbil]

Yes.....according to the religion of man made global warming...this is how you appease their global warming gods...

Give more power over your life to the global warming priesthood....they will keep the global warming god in check.

Give more tax money to the global warming priesthood.....they will use that money to build temples to the global warming god, to travel in big airplanes in pilgrimages to holy sites like in Paris, and other really nice places.......

Give the global warming priesthood the power to punish those who doubt the god of the global warming religion......

that should do it.

Nonsense.
Those warning of global warming are suggesting that we simply spend less money on burning so much fossil fuel.
That does not increase taxes or demand a cent out of anyone.
They instead suggest we do things to save money, like more mass transit, more efficient appliances, etc.

You dummy.....you dont spend less money when you burn less fossil fuels. You spend a shitload more for non- fossil fuel energy....Obama is on video from 2008 saying exactly that.

s0n....gotta emerge from the bubble and flee the matrix. And anyway, very few concur with your sentiments.....nobody gives a shit about Grenlands ice.

 

[2aguy]

And how would we measure this? Got the data used to come up with this? How did they weigh the ice before and after?

You can't weigh a glacier. But it is pretty obvious when it just totally disappears.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...er_1973.jpg/300px-Whitechuck_glacier_1973.jpg
White Chuck Glacier in 1973

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...er_2006.jpg/300px-Whitechuck_glacier_2006.jpg
Same vantage point in 2006. The glacier retreated 1.9 kilometres (1.2 mi) in 30 years.

Here.....go to one of these man made global warming priests and ask for an indulgence....

Twilight of the Eco-Loons: Environmental Activism Jumps the Shark

Dozens of Hollywood A-listers, pop stars and royalty including Leonardo Di Caprio, Katy Perry and Prince Harry raise awareness of global warming by flying to Sicily in 114 private jets to attend a Google Camp on the theme of climate change. Did they think – what? – that we wouldn’t notice the irony here?
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Three eco-warriors plucked from Extinction Rebellion’s street protests to model for Stella McCartney’s new fashion campaign are revealed by the Mail on Sunday to have racked up 135,000 air miles between them in recent years on their vital mission to save the planet.

 

[Rigby5]

The Arctic is on fire. Record-breaking temperatures and strong winds are fueling an unprecedented number of wildfires across the region this summer. In Siberia alone, hundreds of wildfires captured by satellite images July 28 spanned about 3 million hectares of land. Across Alaska, as many as 400 wildfires were burning as of mid-July. And the heat is also melting Greenland’s ice at an alarming rate.

Do you understand why Greenland was called Greenland.......when the various peoples landed on Greenland with their primitive boats......there was no ice or snow........it was all Green.....hence the name, Greenland......

The earth warms, the earth cools.....because of the sun, not man.

Put away your robes and your Mitre...the man made global warming religion worships a false god.

Wrong.
Greenland was always mostly glacier for the last 2 million years.
The Vikings only settled a tiny coastal areas in the south east.
And it really has never changed significantly.
We don't know why they left, but it was not temperature.

{...
Scientists led by Nicolas Young at Columbia University have concluded the climate in Greenland was already cold when the Norse arrived, no warmer than it was when the Norse colonies were abandoned some 400 years later.

The study, whose findings are published in the journal Scientific Advances, analysed isotopes in boulders in southwest Greenland and on neighbouring Baffin Island, which recent archaeological studies indicate might also have been occupied by Viking settlers. Analysing the isotopes allows the scientists to determine when the rocks were deposited by the glaciers, thus charting the advance and retreat of glaciers in the region with more precision than previously. This analysis showed that the glaciers had extended as far during the period of Norse settlement as they did later – thus indicating it was as cold at the beginning of Norse settlement as it was the settlement came to a close, a strong argument against the idea that changes in temperature were the determining factor in the fate of the Norse settlement.
...}
What happened to the Viking settlement of Greenland? New research shows cooling weather not a factor

This image of green grass in Greenland is the way it is now and the way it looked in 1400 when the place was abandoned.

 

[2aguy]

Greenland lost 11 billion tons of ice in one day. How does that melt compare to the past?

Scientists announced Thursday that July equaled, if not surpassed, the hottest month in recorded history. But that was not the only cause for concern.

Greenland's ice sheet melted at its most rapid rate so far this summer summer on Thursday, losing 11 billion tons of surface ice to the ocean, according to data from the Polar Portal, a website run by Danish polar research institutions, and the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

More links to this story.

The Arctic is burning and Greenland is melting, thanks to record heat

The Arctic's ice sheet is melting at a rapid rate: 11 billion tons in one day

In related news;

More than 150 Shark Sightings Recorded Off Coast of Massachusetts

https://www.usnews.com/news/nationa...sightings-recorded-off-coast-of-massachusetts

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/sharks-cape-cod-trnd/index.html

Yes....when you have science like this.....it is nothing more than religion...

Twilight of the Eco-Loons: Environmental Activism Jumps the Shark

In Germany, what was reported as an all time record temperature high during last week’s heat wave, turned out to come from a weather station so badly sited that one expert estimated that the Urban Heat Island effect could be exaggerating its temperature recordings by as much as 3 degrees centigrade.

In Cambridge in the UK, similarly record-breaking highs trumpeted by the BBC, turned out to come from a similarly encroached urban site “too compromised to do anything more than supply approximate figures, rather than scientifically valid ones to tenths of a degree.”

 

[Rigby5]

Greenland lost 11 billion tons of ice in one day. How does that melt compare to the past?

Scientists announced Thursday that July equaled, if not surpassed, the hottest month in recorded history. But that was not the only cause for concern.

Greenland's ice sheet melted at its most rapid rate so far this summer summer on Thursday, losing 11 billion tons of surface ice to the ocean, according to data from the Polar Portal, a website run by Danish polar research institutions, and the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

More links to this story.

The Arctic is burning and Greenland is melting, thanks to record heat

The Arctic's ice sheet is melting at a rapid rate: 11 billion tons in one day

In related news;

More than 150 Shark Sightings Recorded Off Coast of Massachusetts

https://www.usnews.com/news/nationa...sightings-recorded-off-coast-of-massachusetts

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/sharks-cape-cod-trnd/index.html

That's GREAT news! Maybe someday itll be as warm as when the Vikings settled there.

When the Vikings settle there, it was warm local weather temporarily, not a much warmer global climate, as it is now.
The melting of Greenland ice will pour fresh cold water over the warm salty Gulf Stream, causing it to submerge.
That means no more Gulf Stream warming for Europe.
Even notice that Europe is near the Arctic Circle?
It is going to drop about 20 degrees in temperature if the Greenland ice melt continues.

{...
The mighty Gulf Stream, which keeps Northern Europe and parts of Western Russia warmer than other parts of the world that share their latitude, may collapse if greenhouse gas emissions persist, an international team of researchers warns.

Global warming and the melting ice may seriously weaken the powerful Gulf Stream current and ultimately lead to its collapse, which would have incalculable consequences for precipitation, sea ice, sea levels and natural calamities in the North Atlantic and elsewhere on Earth, an international group of researchers predict in an study which was published in the scientific magazine Geophysical Research Letters.

According to Danish climate professor Sebastian H. Mernild, CEO of the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center in Bergen, Norway, the melting of, above all, the Greenland Ice Sheet may result in a marked freshwater influx that could substantially weaken the Atlantic Ocean's intricate system of surface and deep ocean currents, including the Gulf Stream, which is responsible for keeping Europe temperate, Danish newspaper Berlingske reported.

The rise of the meltwater from the Greenland Ice Sheet is expected to be accelerated by the growing density of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Therefore, the balance of the ocean currents may be upset at a faster pace.

In the study, two scenarios were suggested. In the "good" one, which is predicated on the assumption that the world will succeed in overriding the global carbon dioxide curve by the 2040s, the Gulf Stream will "only" be weakened by about 18 percent by the end of the 21st century.

In the nightmare "business as usual" scenario, which anticipates that carbon dioxide emissions will grow as before, the Gulf Stream will have lost about 37 percent of its strength by 2100. By around 2300, the colossal hot water pump will have lost about 75 percent of its momentum and will have a 44 percent risk of collapsing completely, the researchers concluded.
...}
Melting Greenland Ice to Stop Gulf Stream, Plunge Europe Into Cold

Yeah...if it gets cooler it will be because the sun is slowing down with it's solar flare activity....

And glaciers over volcanoes melt...

Volcanic activity is melting this Antarctic glacier from below

No, we know about the solar cycles, like the 13 year solar maxima, and that is not the cause of ice ages or global warming.
Volcanoes are way to small to have global impact from simple conduction.
Volcanoes only effect climate if they spew into the atmosphere and change it.
Antarctic glacier melt is very small compared to Arctic melting.
There are no volcanoes in the Arctic.

 

[the other mike]

Nonsense.
Those warning of global warming are suggesting that we simply spend less money on burning so much fossil fuel.
That does not increase taxes or demand a cent out of anyone.
They instead suggest we do things to save money, like more mass transit, more efficient appliances, etc.

Next to House Democrats , CCD's* are the worst drama queens I've ever seen.
*(climate change deniers)

 

[the other mike]

No, we know about the solar cycles, like the 13 year solar maxima, and that is not the cause of ice ages or global warming.
Volcanoes are way to small to have global impact from simple conduction.
Volcanoes only effect climate if they spew into the atmosphere and change it.
Antarctic glacier melt is very small compared to Arctic melting.
There are no volcanoes in the Arctic.

That's true. I believe the volcano closest to the Arctic circle would be in Iceland.

 

[fncceo]

I predict an increase in unusual anchovy behavior.

If anchovies choose to self identity as a hairball, we have to respect that.

 

[Stormy Daniels]

Greenland is called that for a reason. There are Nordic farms under the ice sheet.

No there aren't, you moron. The name was assigned by Erik the Red, as part of the medieval equivalent of a real estate con job.

Unseen Property Cons and Land Scams in History | Hankering for History

 

[Rigby5]

Yes.....according to the religion of man made global warming...this is how you appease their global warming gods...

Give more power over your life to the global warming priesthood....they will keep the global warming god in check.

Give more tax money to the global warming priesthood.....they will use that money to build temples to the global warming god, to travel in big airplanes in pilgrimages to holy sites like in Paris, and other really nice places.......

Give the global warming priesthood the power to punish those who doubt the god of the global warming religion......

that should do it.

Nonsense.
Those warning of global warming are suggesting that we simply spend less money on burning so much fossil fuel.
That does not increase taxes or demand a cent out of anyone.
They instead suggest we do things to save money, like more mass transit, more efficient appliances, etc.

You dummy.....you dont spend less money when you burn less fossil fuels. You spend a shitload more for non- fossil fuel energy....Obama is on video from 2008 saying exactly that.

s0n....gotta emerge from the bubble and flee the matrix. And anyway, very few concur with your sentiments.....nobody gives a shit about Grenlands ice.

Europe cares quite a bit about Greenland's.
If they end up being snowed in, all of Europe will have to move.
None of the agriculture will be possible any more.
It would be like trying to feed Russia without the Ukraine.

But no, the point is not to replace fossil fuel, because that really is not possible.
The goal is simply to stop using up so much fossil fuel, and to plant more trees so that we can recapture some of that excess carbon.

Ethiopia plants more than 350 million trees in 12 hours - CNN
{...
Ethiopia plants more than 350 million trees in 12 hours
By Sharif Paget and Helen Regan, CNN
Updated 12:25 AM ET, Tue July 30, 2019

(CNN)Ethiopia planted more than 353 million trees in 12 hours on Monday, which officials believe is a world record.

The burst of tree planting was part of a wider reforestation campaign named "Green Legacy," spearheaded by the country's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Millions of Ethiopians across the country were invited to take part in the challenge and within the first six hours, Ahmed tweeted that around 150 million trees had been planted.
"We're halfway to our goal," he said and encouraged Ethiopians to "build on the momentum in the remaining hours." After the 12-hour period ended, the Prime Minister took to Twitter again to announce that Ethiopia not only met its "collective #GreenLegacy goal," but exceeded it.
A total of 353,633,660 tree seedlings had been planted, the country's minster for innovation and technology, Getahun Mekuria, tweeted.
...}

 

[Rigby5]

Greenland lost 11 billion tons of ice in one day. How does that melt compare to the past?

Scientists announced Thursday that July equaled, if not surpassed, the hottest month in recorded history. But that was not the only cause for concern.

Greenland's ice sheet melted at its most rapid rate so far this summer summer on Thursday, losing 11 billion tons of surface ice to the ocean, according to data from the Polar Portal, a website run by Danish polar research institutions, and the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

More links to this story.

The Arctic is burning and Greenland is melting, thanks to record heat

The Arctic's ice sheet is melting at a rapid rate: 11 billion tons in one day

In related news;

More than 150 Shark Sightings Recorded Off Coast of Massachusetts

https://www.usnews.com/news/nationa...sightings-recorded-off-coast-of-massachusetts

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/sharks-cape-cod-trnd/index.html

Yes....when you have science like this.....it is nothing more than religion...

Twilight of the Eco-Loons: Environmental Activism Jumps the Shark

In Germany, what was reported as an all time record temperature high during last week’s heat wave, turned out to come from a weather station so badly sited that one expert estimated that the Urban Heat Island effect could be exaggerating its temperature recordings by as much as 3 degrees centigrade.

In Cambridge in the UK, similarly record-breaking highs trumpeted by the BBC, turned out to come from a similarly encroached urban site “too compromised to do anything more than supply approximate figures, rather than scientifically valid ones to tenths of a degree.”

You don't want to trust air temperatures because they could be influenced by urban heat islands, then don't.
Here are ocean temperatures, with much higher accuracies.