Posted on 01/21/2019 3:30:45 PM PST by EdnaMode
Greenland’s 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.
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I wish these greens would be more clear. If we pass the tipping point can we then blow off trying to do anything about “climate change” and just go back to normal? Who will declare the tipping point Al Gore?
“This year - a drastic melting occurred. In only two months, all the ice that had accumulated the previous year had disappeared! Vanished, along with the dreams of making the area a winter-wonderland refuge for polar bears and penguins.”
So, in other words, these "scientists" are Lying!
It is. I’ve found several different types. Used one to Calculate the G’s in that Limo wreck a while back.
And to think All the stuff I spent time building into Spreadsheets for the everyday number crunching at the Water Plant.
Oh well, I got paid for it.
And I’m sure your company wanted to verify the calculations were right. Not just some random internet site.
Water treatment or power plant?
Green Land
for a while, Greenland and Iceland switched. Green Land was green and habitable (dinosaurs?), Ice Land more like Norway, frozen and hostile to life. Then Green Land froze over and Ice Land defrosted. And they’re right next to each other. So maybe it has more to do with polar shifts, which are definitely out of our control.
Can’t be them, they are very intelligent looking.
Around 12,900 years ago....an ice-melt ‘event’ occurred and in some catastrophic way (we are talking about in days, not years or centuries)...the water level rose 300 feet, to where it stands today. Before scientists run off and get excited about 3 or 4 feet in a rise...they might want to survey what triggered the 300 foot rise.
The Pacific Ocean is getting colder. Hydro-Quebec has been calling upon it’s customers to cut consumption to avoid a black-out scenario in -50 Centigrade temperatures.
I used the Formulas that were displayed on the pages they made in ExCell and just printed out. Then all day/night long they would sit with a handheld calculator and run the numbers. Then enter by hand on the printed pages. I checked all that Myself, I’m sure they checked also but not till I had. When I was finished they were amazed at how much time was available to do “other” things around the place. With fully functional Spreadsheets all that had to happen was run the Tests to get the results and the Meter Readings then plug them into the Sheets and POOF!!! Life simplified. The toughest Test Sheet to make work was the Langiler Hardness Test because the End Data was not on a Sliding Scale but I got it figured out.
Surface Water Plant- 30 MGD Treated Production.
Did you mean the esteemed Nobel laureate scientist Dr. Hank Johnson ??
MAKE GREENLAND GREEN AGAIN!
maybe the President should offer gov’t jobs back in exchange for ending climate research grants.
The scientists reported melting along the southwest coastal areas but gains over the northern and eastern zones yielding an overall net gain. The fake news NYT and others reported what was convenient to their agendas, leaving out what wasn't.
I meant the esteemed idiot Congressman hank Johnson from Georgia who thought Guam could “tip over”...
It’s raciss to enjoy the idiocy of the Left.
Yes that’s why it’s called Greenland
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