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 ...
Nuke it in the name climate justice!
Nuke it in the name of climate justice!
If it wasn’t for Lazamataz sacrificing virgins to himself, and to volcanoes in South America and the Carribean, we would not be getting this great news!
Greta Thunberg was a late breaking candidate.But the Greens in Europe are saving her sacrifice for the last possible moment in the next 11.8 years.
LOL!!
Bookies will take your bet. Place it. Do we have more than 11.84 years before the eastern seaboard lies 150 feet under water? Are the climate Armageddonists predicting in 250000 year units?
“In the long run, we are all dead.” should be trending cooler, but to what extent, and how quickly? People won’t give up control of their lives if the danger is not immediate and drastic. And, isn’t that what “climate change” is all about?
Cool chart. Thanks for posting.
“People won’t give up control of their lives if the danger is not immediate and drastic. And, isn’t that what “climate change” is all about?”
Yep, it sure is, all manipulation. Even though it has been trending towards the inevitable “normal” cool situation for the last 8,000 years. The real Paleoclimatology is ignored altogether. Fact is earth has been in an iceage more than 85% of it’s life and the cycle has always repeated it’s self, it is not going to stop because of their short term false narrative.
But man has adapted and lived through many of these iceage cycles already, Approximately 25 cycles in reality. So while it might reduce numbers, we will carry on and do it all over again after this one coming again.
My pleasure, it really does create a good visual of how it works. First time I saw a visual of these cells, I immediately tried to find how my personal location fit into these systems and the cool/warm “mixing” of the cells. It explained quite a bit for me. :)
Yet another reason for the USA to buy Greenland from Denmark
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