Greenland Ice Sheet saw Record Melt in 2010

[OwlHoot]

Greenland ice sheet saw record melt, study finds

The ice sheet covering Greenland melted at the fastest rate since records began in 1979, a new study shows. That’s important because the ice sheet is becoming a major contributor to projected sea level rises in coming decades.

.."This past melt season was exceptional, with melting in some areas stretching up to 50 days longer than average," said study co-author Marco Tedesco, director of the Cryospheric Processes Laboratory at The City College of New York.

"Melting in 2010 started exceptionally early at the end of April and ended quite late in mid- September," he added in a statement released with the study.

"Over the past 30 years, the area subject to melting in Greenland has been increasing" at about 17,000 square kilometers a year, Tedesco stated on his research website.

"This is equivalent to adding a melt-region the size of Washington state every ten years," he added. "Or, in alternative, this means that an area of the size of France melted in 2010 which was not melting in 1979."

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[TimberWolf]

When we were in the depths of the recent (perhaps still on-going) cold spell, the weathermen were saying Greenland was warm because the jet stream was doing something unusual that meant it missed its usual more northerly path and hit Europe instead.

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...ml#post1253451

[Doggy Styles]

Will losing that ice free up enough land for people on low-lying islands to live on? Nature's quid pro quo perhaps?

[Old Greg]

Will losing that ice free up enough land for people on low-lying islands to live on? Nature's quid pro quo perhaps?

I expect it will mean we can find more oil to burn.

[BlasterBates]

This sums up what's gone wrong with climate science:

Guest Post “Global Floods

I suspect the Greenland glaciers won't all melt away, it's probably like everything else, part of a long term natural cycle.

Be nice if climate scientists just tried to understand the climate.

[Paddy]

Greenland ice sheet saw record melt, study finds

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Steam explodes from a glacier-topped Iceland volcano in an aerial picture taken April 14, 2010, by the Icelandic Coast Guard. The new eruption began Tuesday, just as the headline-making lava fountains at a neighboring, ice-free vent were dying down.


Volcanic heat is rapidly melting the 650-foot-thick (200-meter-thick) ice block atop the vent, which is part of Eyjafjallajökull volcano

[BlasterBates]

Here's another view on Greenland.

Easterbrook on the magnitude of Greenland GISP2 ice core data | Watts Up With That?

[pjclarke]

Yawn

Easterbrook’s wrong (again)

[TykeMerc]

When the vikings discovered Greenland wasn't it relatively ice free? Simply because it's been ice covered for the better part of a millennium does that mean it should be or is it normally subject to cyclical changes?

[Old Greg]

This sums up what's gone wrong with climate science:

Guest Post “Global Floods

I suspect the Greenland glaciers won't all melt away, it's probably like everything else, part of a long term natural cycle.

Be nice if climate scientists just tried to understand the climate.

Internet poster suspects glaciers won't all melt away. I shall alert the Daily Mail immediately.