Posted on 01/21/2019 3:30:45 PM PST by EdnaMode
Greenlands enormous ice sheet is melting at such an accelerated rate that it may have reached a tipping point, and could become a major factor in sea-level rise around the world within two decades, scientists said in a study published on Monday.
The Arctic is warming at twice the average rate of the rest of the planet, and the new research adds to the evidence that the ice loss in Greenland, which lies mainly above the Arctic Circle, is speeding up as the warming increases. The authors found that ice loss in 2012 was nearly four times the rate in 2003, and after a lull in 2013-14, it has resumed.
The study is the latest in a series of papers published this month suggesting that scientific estimates of the effects of a warming planet have been, if anything, too conservative. Just a week ago, a separate study of ice loss in Antarctica found that the continent is contributing more to rising sea levels than previously thought.
Another new analysis suggested that the oceans are warming far faster than earlier estimates. Warming oceans are currently the leading cause of sea-level rise, since water expands as it warms.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
So tip already and get out of the restaurant, we’ve been waiting in the lobby for half an hour.
Libe rule #1: When your lies don’t work... lie harder!!!
Why the heck was it named Greenland, if it’s covered in white ice?
MELT!
What's their hypothalamus for this? How does this happen? How is heat concentrating in a region that gets the least amount of solar radiation?
Greenland used to be a lot warmer. It goes in cycles.
The Vikings actually had large settlements there.
Make Greenland Green Again!
I thought the “tipping point” was in 1976 and 1977 when that fall and winter was so brutal it was seen as “proof” we were entering a NEW ICE AGE!
cool tool... thx
BULL CRAP - MORE LIBERAL LIES
Lets please get past the tipping point so we can stop this madness and move on to real problems facing humanity.
Note to Schwartz and the NYT. Greenland cannot tip over.
And neither can Guam.
5.56mm
We used to call them “blathering fools” but they are now known as “climate experts”.
Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
Make Greenland Green Again!
Exactly, Lets start the new green party. Our slogan, Make Greenland Green again.
All the carbon in the air has fallen into the oceans, sunk to the bottom and is increasing the core temperature by gravitational pressure...
LOL. MGGA!
Darn you!
Cool calculator.
Oh and the unusual expansion of H2O upon freezing is because of the polarity of the molecules.
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