Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return

ScienceDaily.com ^ | 13 August 2020 | Ohio State University

[zeestephen]

Nearly 40 years of satellite data from Greenland shows that glaciers on the island have shrunk so much that even if global warming were to stop today, the ice sheet would continue shrinking.

[ConservativeMind]

How does this matter? Other places are getting more ice.

[dsrtsage]

So, you mean plants and animals might start growing there again?

[Bulwyf]

No, 52nd. Alberta brings more to the table. She should be the 51st.

[SunkenCiv]

Chrono sorted Greenland keyword selections, I got bored somewhere in the 2010 topics, overall there are 300.

• Renowned climate change scientist dead after falling into crevasse in Greenland [2020]
• Coronavirus puts Arctic climate change research on ice [2020]
• Bernie Sanders: 'The Arctic is on Fire;" Weather Service: It's 45 Degrees Below Zero in North Alaska [2020]
• Climate change: Scientists find another threat to Greenland's glaciers lurking beneath the ice [2020]
• Major Greenland Glacier Is Growing (3rd Straight Year) [2020]
• NBC Announces New 'Climate Unit' and 'Climate in Crisis' Series [2019]
• CNN analyst claims melting ice caps will leave US cities 'engulfed in floods' [2019]
• Satellite Images Show Vast Swaths of the Arctic On Fire [2019]
• Greenland Episode Exposes Repeated Exaggeration of Weather Events [2019]
• Warmist hysteria over purportedly 'catastrophic' ice melting in Greenland busted [2019]
• Temperatures leap 40 degrees above normal Arctic Ocean, Greenland ice sheet see record melting (tr) [2019]
• Greenland Is Falling Apart [2019]
• New study refutes climate-change alarm [2019]
• Global Warming Has Been Canceled: Key Greenland Glacier Has Expanded. Ocasio-Cortez Hardest Hit [2019]
• Key Greenland glacier growing again after shrinking for years, NASA study shows [2019]
• Scientists Have Reduced the Forecast of Sea Level Rise Seven Times Due to Melting of the Antarctic [2019]
• It is Time[charismatic caucus] [2019]
• Greenland's Melting Ice Nears a 'Tipping Point,' Scientists Say [2019]
• NASA satellite launched to measure Earth's ice changes [2018]
• Arctic's oldest and thickest sea ice breaks for first time [2018]
• How Greenland scorched its underside [2018]
• 11-million-ton iceberg threatens to inundate tiny Greenland village with tsunami [2018]
• Ancient Greenland was much warmer than previously thought [2018]
• July 4, 2017 : Coldest July Temperature Ever Recorded In The Northern Hemisphere [2017]
• At least 4 feared dead after tsunami in Greenland [2017]
• Study finds potential instability in Atlantic Ocean water circulation system [2017]
• Greenland Enters 2017 Adding Extraordinary Amounts Of Ice And Snow [2017]
• Greenland Had No Ice For 280,000 Years 1.1 Million Years Ago, And Could Go That Way Again [2016]
• Seas Are Rising at Fastest Rate in Last 28 Centuries [2016]
• Debunking The "Vikings Weren't Victims Of Climate" Myth [Greenland and Historical Realities] [2016]
• 'No Extinctions': Polar Bears Survived Periods When The Arctic Had No Ice(DOH!) [2016]
• Watching Greenland melt from Paris [2015]
• Vikings' mysterious abandonment of Greenland was not due to climate change, study suggests [2015]
• The New York Times looks at us, decides we're idiots, and lies right to our face [2015]
• Why some scientists are worried about a surprisingly cold 'blob' in the North Atlantic [2015]
• Earth's Most Famous Climate Scientist Issues Bombshell Sea Level Warning (Guess who?) [2015]
• Here's Why Global Warming Alarmists Don't Talk About Greenland [2015]
• Lying with Statistics: The National Climate Assessment Falsely Hypes Ice Loss ... [2014]
• Frozen Underworld Discovered Beneath Greenland Ice Sheet (Mountains of Ice) [2014]
• Study: Greenland Ice Sheet was smaller 3000-5000 years ago than today [2013]
• Massive 'Grand Canyon' Found Hidden Beneath Greenland's Ice [2013]
• Heat flow from Earth's mantle contributes to Greenland ice melting [Oh NOES!] [2013]
• Weather, not climate, caused the brief surface melt in Greenland last summer [2013]
• First complete ice core record of last interglacial period shows the climate of Greenland ...... [2013]
• Modern Greenland Melt Echoed in 126,000-Year-Old Ice [2013]
• Seal diet provides clue to disappearance of Norse from Greenland [2012]
• Greenland ice sheet melted at unprecedented rate during July [2012]
• Greenland Ice Melt every 150 years is 'right on time' [2012]
• Crack in the Earth: Greenland glacier loses ice island twice the size of Manhattan [2012]
• Historical Imagery of Greenland Glaciers Lessens Sea Level Rise Alarm [2012]
• Greenland's Glaciers Retreated Faster in the 1930s [2012]
• 1930s photos show Greenland glaciers retreating faster than today ( it was no big deal then) [2012]
• Whoa There! Some Greenland Glaciers Slowing Down [2012]
• Data sheds light on speed of Greenland's glaciers [2012]
• Times Atlas 'wrong' on Greenland ice [2011]
• New Atlas Makes It Official: Greenland is a Different Color Now, Thanks to Warming [2011]
• Second giant ice island set to break off Greenland glacier [2011]
• Climate played big role in Vikings' disappearance from Greenland [2011]
• Ocean ridges and climate models [2011]
• Easterbrook on the magnitude of Greenland GISP2 ice core data [2011]
• The sun rises two days early in Greenland, sparking fears that climate change is accelerating [2011]
• Climate: New study slashes estimate of icecap loss ( From DrudgeReport) [2010]
• Ice Chunk Larger Than Manhattan (four times the size) Breaks Off Greenland Glacier [2010]
• Big Chunk of Ice Breaks Off of Greenland Glacier (one-eighth the size of Manhattan) [2010]
• Are You Ready For Global Cooling? [2010]
• Greenland Rising Rapidly as Ice Melts [2010]
• The Medieval Warm Period in Greenland [2010]
• It's the blob (anomaly)! ( A giant temperature anomaly is attacking Canada and Greenland.) [2010]

[SunkenCiv]

• Greenland to become 51st state of the United States [2009]

[JimRed]

The ice use to be almost a mile thick over the land which is now New York City.

And the approach to the Hudson Canyon, well offshore, was beachfront property.

[cranked]

Natural function given the Earth has always had ‘climate change,’ some normal progressions, others rapid and catastrophic due to outside the Earth influences or happenings (Comet/asteroid impacts or air detonations, solar flares, etc.).

[Sacajaweau]

There’s a reason it is/was named Greenland instead of Iceland.

[DouglasKC]

Time to buy real estate in Greenland....

[lizma2]

Restart vineyard in the U.K.!

[KamperKen]

"If all this ice has melted, why isn’t New Orleans under water already? How about San Fran, Los Angeles, etc?"

Per the NOAA website sea level has been falling the past couple of years the opposite of what one would expect if the Greenland ice cap was melting. There are only two sources of ice that could significantly raise sea level, Greenland and Antarctica and both continue to gain ice.

[Neverlift]

I always wondered why they didn’t call it Whiteland.

[JCM]

There are more active volcanos under the surface of the ocean than above it. From what I understand there are active one(s) underwater in the vicinity of Greenland. What influence does that have on the shrinking glacier? Has it been factored in with all their predictions?

[lurk]

I recently flew Amsterdam to Seattle, going right over Greenland for about an hour. It’s got a lot of ice and snow.

I am however worried about the penguins there...

[KamperKen]

"There are more active volcanos under the surface of the ocean than above it. From what I understand there are active one(s) underwater in the vicinity of Greenland. What influence does that have on the shrinking glacier? Has it been factored in with all their predictions?

I've read estimates of 2 to 4 million underwater active volcanoes. There's been a slight increase in temperature and melt on the Antarctica peninsula which is only about 5% of the area of Antarctica due to underwater vulcanism. However the rest of the continent continues to accumulate around 200 cubic miles of ice every year and it's temperature has been falling continuously the late 1950s.

[Bishop_Malachi]

No offense, but why would we want the ice sheet to return?

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I should have put the “sarcasm” tag at the end.

[Arcadian Empire]

Conquer Greenland now.

[South Dakota]

Alrighty then.
We just have to wait and we can retrieve Glacier Girl’s sisters and the B-17 bomber

[Carl Vehse]

Now we’ll find out why it’s called Greenland.

[hal ogen]

So what? Maybe then the people there can grow something instead of eating snow-cones all the time.