Summer is over, and Greenland’s surface has gained 510 billion tons of ice over the past year – about 40% above normal. The surface mass budget is snow/ice accumulation minus melt.
Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Budget: DMI
It does not include ice loss caused by glaciers flowing to the sea, which is very difficult to measure and is driven by processes which have little to do with the current climate.
Last year Greenland gained a little more ice, about 50% above normal.
Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Budget: DMI
The trajectories were very different last year and this year, but the final result was about the same.
Lining the two graphs up side by side, you can see the more than one trillion tons of ice which Greenland’s surface has gained over the past two years.
Last year, the Danish Meteorological Institute reported on the gain in ice and blamed it on Hurricane Nicole. I wonder what their excuse will be this year?
Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2017 | Carbon Brief
Even NOAA begrudgingly admitted that the huge ice gain was a “small increase.”
Greenland Ice Sheet’s 2017 weigh-in suggests a small increase in ice mass | NOAA Climate.gov
Meanwhile, the usual fraudsters in the press continue to report Greenland is melting and we are all about to die.
Read more at Real Climate Science
Wonderful: Calling a weather event that increases the ice mass as a ‘culprit.’ It seems they want it to melt so they are proved right.
Anyways don’t understand and hope sombody can explain. How did the hurricane (a single event) add significantly to the huge increase???? No comprendo. Please explain.
Al Gore refuses to debate because he dont want to be proven a con man that he is
Greenland Goes Green: Ice Sheet Melted in Four Days – LYING BY OMISSION
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/greenland-goes-green-ice-sheet-melted-in-four-days
“The melting spread quickly. Melt maps derived from the three satellites showed that on July 8, about 40 percent of the ice sheet’s surface had melted.
No. The melting spread quickly and lasted for 4 days. Melt maps derived from the three satellites showed that on July 8, about 40 percent of the ice sheet’s SURFACE showed SOME signs of melting.
“By July 12, 97 percent had melted.”
No. By July 12, 97 of the ice sheet’s SURFACE showed SOME signs of melting.
LYING BY FAILING TO REPORT RELEVENT FACTUAL EVENTS – “They found that black carbon concentrations in the Greenland ice were exceptionally high during 2012. Interestingly, black carbon concentrations were also exceptionally high in deep core samples corresponding to the year 1889 when another rare surface melt event had occurred. The presence of warm air temperatures and high soot concentrations during both of the 2012 and 1889 melt events strongly suggests that both of these factors play an important role in this type of surface melting.”
INCORPORATING THE LIE “Bottom line: New research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on May 19, 2014 suggests that the unusually large melt of Greenland’s ice sheet in 2012 was due the combined effects of warm air temperatures and high concentrations of ash from forest fires. Such melt events are expected to become more frequent in the future because of climate change.”
No. Such rare surface melt events can be expected anytime in the future when both of these factors occur.