Greenland Is Falling Apart

The Atlantic ^ | April 23, 2019 | Robinson Meyer

[TigersEye]

Oh, yeah yeah, OK. It's the "we're only beginning to understand it so we need to study it more" reason. But "man-made Globull Warming is a certainty."

[Grimmy]

Globull Warming?

Now you’re getting into religion.

And that means tax free.

[TigersEye]

Sorry, I meant to say Climb-it Change.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Hey, not my problem. Sucks to be them.
 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Support global warming = more research grant money

[onedoug]

I’ll go with hysteria for 500, Alex.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Assuming your numbers are correct, I calculate 0.037%. Of course, I'm rusty with numbers and I could be way off.

Item	Units	Value
Weight Ice lost	pounds	1.1E+16
Density water	lb/ft^3	62.4
Volume ice lost	ft^3	1.8E+14
Cubic Ft per Cubic Mile		1.5E+11
Volume ice lost	mi^3	1.2E+03
Volume oceans	mi^3	3.21E+08
Ice Lost as Fraction of Oceans		0.037%

[Jonty30]

11 quadrillion pounds is about 5 trillion cubic metres of water.

That’s about 4.740 km^3 every year of change

[Shady]

This year the amount of ice is up. Go figure.

[jonrick46]

The Gakkel Ridge is a gigantic chain of underwater volcanoes stretching 1,100 miles beneath the Arctic Ocean from the northern tip of Greenland to Siberia. That there is no discussion of the effects on ocean warming by this chain of volcnoes is because it changes the global warming narrative.

The Gakkel Ridge is generating massive amounts of volcanic heat into the overlying ocean and melting large portions of the ice that floats above. This heated ocean water is carried by currents to other parts of the region. These heated waters also heat the air temperature. As the ice melts, it releases trapped CO2. The volcanic action also releases massive amounts of methane (cow farts for OAC).

[outofsalt]

I like this site which monitors “ice melt days” which begin to occur this time of year through September.
“As noted in the previous post, exceptional winter snow accumulation and heavy, summer snowfall, drove the net snow input mass to 130 billion tons above the 1981 to 2010 average. This was followed by a near-average melt and runoff period, resulting in a large net mass gain for the ice sheet in 2018 of 150 billion tons. This is the largest net gain from snowfall since 1996, and the highest snowfall since 1972.” http://nsidc.org/greenland-today/

[MountainWalker]

Suppose one were so incapable of critical thought that you accepted every worrisome ecological event as the direct result of fossil fuels. Do you really think the Democrats, who couldn’t even manage a cash for clunkers program, would have any prayer of counteracting the behavior of everyone in the world?

[MAGAthon]

expect this on all FakeNewsMSM as the new scare. if we don’t spend untold trillions of dollars on “climate change” now, it could cost us $2,000 TRILLION! these people are barking mad:

23 Apr: National Geographic: A warming Arctic could cost the world trillions of dollars
By Stephen Leahy
These climate-change-driven feedbacks in the Arctic are accelerating warming even faster and may add nearly $70 trillion to the overall costs of climate change—even if the world meets the Paris Agreement climate targets, a new study says...

However, if efforts can be made to keep climate change limited to 1.5 degrees Celcius, the extra cost of Arctic warming drops to $25 trillion, new research published in Nature Communications reports. A trillion is a thousand billion. For comparison, the global GDP in 2016 was around US$76 trillion...

The $25 to $70 trillion cost of Arctic warming adds four to six percent to the total cost of climate change—which is estimated to reach $1,390 trillion by the year 2300 if emissions cuts are not better than the Paris Agreement. However, the costs of the current business-as-usual path could be more than $2,000 trillion...
https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/nature/a-warming-arctic-could-cost-the-world-trillions-of-dollars.aspx

[SaveFerris]

Love it

[BobL]

‘If Greenland were suddenly transported to the central United States, it would be a very bad day for about 65 million people, who would be crushed instantly.’

Interesting fantasies this guy has, crushing Trump’s Midwest base of support, along with a number of people that nearly match Trump’s vote total.

By the way, this is how the Left dog-whistles each other.

[stinkerpot65]

Democrats are lying scum.

[FreedomPoster]

I get 0.00037%

[rbg81]

If Greenland were suddenly transported to the central United States, it would be a very bad day for about 65 million people, who would be crushed instantly

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Gee, I luv these “scientific” what if!! [/s]

[Dixie Yooper]

That’s about 4.740 km^3 every year of change

Fun metric facts! Lake Superior, is about 12,000 km^3. Lake Erie is 480 km^3. Lake Tahoe is 150 km^3. Lake Champlain is 25.8 km^3. Lake Barcroft (inside the Beltway,VA) is 0.6 km^3. Three Gorges Reservoir is 39.3 km^3.

[steve8714]

Did not the Norse have vineyards there in the seventh and eighth centuries?