Posted on 01/10/2020 7:38:29 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Jakobshavn Glacier in western Greenland is notorious for being the world’s fastest-moving glacier. It is also one of the most active, discharging a tremendous amount of ice from the Greenland Ice Sheet into Ilulissat Icefjord and adjacent Disko Bay—with implications for sea level rise. The image above, acquired on June 6, 2019, by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8, shows a natural-color view of the glacier.
Jakobshavn has spent decades in retreat—that is, until scientists observed an unexpected advance between 2016 and 2017. In addition to growing toward the ocean, the glacier was found to be slowing and thickening. New data collected in March 2019 confirm that the glacier has grown for the third year in a row, and scientists attribute the change to cool ocean waters.
“The third straight year of thickening of Greenland’s biggest glacier supports our conclusion that the ocean is the culprit,” said Josh Willis, an ocean scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and principal investigator of the Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission.
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Willis and colleagues think the glacier is reacting to a shift in a climate pattern called the North Atlantic Oscillation, which has brought cold water northward along Greenland’s west coast. Measurements of the temperatures collected by the OMG team show that the cold water has persisted.
“Even three years after the cold water arrived, the glacier is still reacting,” Willis said. “I’m really excited to go back this August and measure the temperature again. Is it still cold? Or has it warmed back up?”
(Excerpt) Read more at earthobservatory.nasa.gov ...
The glacier is growing and the ocean is 'the culprit'.
“Even three years after the cold water arrived, the glacier is still reacting.”
"Still reacting" to cold ocean water - Growing.
Maybe the heat of the polar bears was melting it, and when they all died off in 2020 the glacier began to expand again.
This glacier is obviously a climate change denier. Bad glacier! This glacier must be punished, although I’m not quite sure how.
It is quite possible that with all the various feedback mechanisms the earth global average surface temps are actually quite stable, with warming somewhere offset by cooling somewhere else, and all due to long cycles of changes that move water and air patterns and currents, gradually but constantly.
Flame thrower should take a part of it.!!
New data collected in March 2019 confirm that the glacier has grown for the third year in a row, and scientists attribute the change to cool ocean waters.
Glacier growth is caused by weather. Glacier shrinkage is caused by climate change.
Dirty Jobs removed it from it's website years ago.
"I was in the pool!"
Did they consult with the retarded teenager before announcing this data?
Isn’t the retarded teenager the Highest Scientific Authority On Planet Earth?
To read between the lines, I bet they will suggest, that this growing glacier is going to melt someday, and when it does, that’s when all the coastal cities will get flooded.
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I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT! We are finally entering the NEW ICE AGE and WE ALL GONNA DIE!
Quick. Send me money and I will stop it!
Like a frightened turtle.
This is from NASA, why are they studying this instead of doing the Muslim outreach Obongo tasked them with?
Greenland, You could still sell to us before you’re completely Glaciated.
Third year? You mean since the election of Donald Trump? Now Trump is not only responsible for reducing cancer deaths, but in curing the planet. Something Obama could not do...
But, “science is science” (except in gender identity)...how can they put this on a bumper sticker !
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