Greenland Melt Accelerating

Terra Daily ^ | 12/12/2007 | Staff Writers

[cogitator]

So, has there been a corresponding rise in sea levels?

Yes.

[boomop1]

Hallelujah, Greenland will be Green again.

[Lady Jag]

And Boston just had a blizzard that left 12" of snow in some places.

Breaking the 1901 record of 7"!

Global CONFUSION!

Algor OBFUSCATION!

[cogitator]

And Boston just had a blizzard that left 12" of snow in some places.

I just checked the calendar -- I was pretty certain this is December. I'm sure glad I'm right about that.

[xcullen]

The centimeters on this graph are almost twice the size of actual centimeters.

[avacado]

Why are the satellite measurements outside of the range of uncertainty of the IPCC scenarios?

[Lady Jag]

Did you actually read the post?

Have you lived in Mass.? We often don't get any snow till after Christmas and we've just had a 12" blizzard and are expecting another stronger snowstorm on Sunday.

Hasn't happened for 100 years that we've gotten this much snow, algor.

[cogitator]

[Badeye]

Gee, I wonder why they named it GREENLAND.....

[andyandval]

[cogitator]

Why are the satellite measurements outside of the range of uncertainty of the IPCC scenarios?

Because the IPCC scenarios are conservative.

[headsonpikes]

Steffen and his team have been using a rotating laser and a sophisticated digital camera and high-definition camera system provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to map the volume and geometry of moulins on the Greenland ice sheet to a depth of more than 1,500 feet.

"We know the number of moulins is increasing," said Steffen. "The bigger question is how much water is reaching the bed of the ice sheet, and how quickly it gets there."

Maybe it's that dadgummed "rotating laser" punching holes in the ice-cap!

Did these so-called "scientists" ever think of that while they were tossing back the Danish schnapps and chasing the Greenland girls in the snow?

I ask you!

[secretagent]

Does this threaten the “conveyor belt”?

[avacado]

"Because the IPCC scenarios are conservative."

Really? Do you have a link to back that up? Models predict ranges within a certain level of certainty.

[cogitator]

We often don't get any snow till after Christmas

"The ‘snow history’ of Boston, like any other thing about Boston, is interesting. Records since 1920 show that the earliest date of first snowfall (1" in a day) was Nov. 10, 1976 while the latest was Jan. 29, 1928. The mean date is Dec. 12. The earliest date for the last snowfall (1" in a day) was Nov. 24, 1936 and the latest was Apr. 28, 1987. The mean date is Mar. 20. The greatest seasonal snowfall was 107.6" in 1995-96 while the least was 8.2" in 1936-1937. The mean seasonal snowfall is 41.3". The most snow in 24 hours was recorded as 27" on Feb. 17-18, 2003. The average snow per month happens to be 12.8" for Feb. and 12" for Jan. The snowstorm climatology (1952 to 1992) for Boston shows that the average number of snowstorms (resulting in at least 1" snow) per season is 10.33, out of which six have resulted in snow in the range of 1" to 2.9"."

1936 was the record warm year in the continental United States, I think; I'm guessing that it didn't snow in Boston the rest of that winter.

[Beagle8U]

“The current contribution of Greenland ice melt to global sea levels is about 0.5 millimeters annually.”

Wow, a whole inch in fifty years.

[denydenydeny]

1936 was the record warm year in the continental United States

And it was ALL AMERICA'S FAULT! If Stalin had been clever, he would have found a way to exploit that the way the global warming movement is doing today.

[kempo]

If the Greenland ice sheet is melting, would it be the 10,000th time that it did melt or would it be the 20,000th time that it melted?

[Tulsa Ramjet]

Ted Kennedy farted: "Whoooaa! Excuse me. Hey, look at those penguins run."

[cogitator]

Maybe it's that dadgummed "rotating laser" punching holes in the ice-cap!

We need help!