Greenland's ice sheet just lost 11 billion tons of ice -- in one day

nice work floodin' the planet shit head arrogant boomerz

At the current rate of sea level rise, my house will be flooded in about 100,000 years. I'm praying for an ice age.

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So you can take a selfie?

So I can ski all year.

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Wel, it has gained over a trillion tons of ice in the last 2 years, and of course they didnt mention it. Going for the shock factor I guess;)

Cheers

I hate it when they do that. 11 billion tons is equivalent to about 6mm of ice. Nothing spectacular to lose that much in one summer day. But they have a point to make, haven't they?

Jeroen Belleman

Really? 11 billion tons of ice in one day is nothing unusual? What is the typical number?

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Apparently it's been going on for 4 months (a very early start, 6mm * 120 days is 0.7m) and now picking up steam. But it looks like the alarm bells are coming from the researchers, who are in a better place than the rest of us to be alarmed or not.

My eyebrows went up when the temp at the north pole went above 65F recently. This after the temps at the north pole were higher than here in Boston, at various times during the winter. How can you not be alarmed at that? And the ice cover thickness and extent scene is very bad.

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John Larkin doesn't process the kind of information that points out that se a level rise happens a lot more rapidly when the ice sheet as a whole start s sliding off into the ocean.

Bits fall off the edges of ice sheets all the time, and snow accumulates on the top, right up to the point where the ice sheet starts sliding off in l arge chunks, exposing bare rock (which reflects less of the incoming solar radiation than snow does, and absorbs quite a bit more, so that snow doesn' t accumulate on it until winter).

He gets in more skiing, and the rest of the population starves.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney

Yes, but no one researches into previous massive melts such as around

900AD. There is Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska that is melting and exposing a forest - which was in existence about 1000 years ago. How long does it take to grow a forest? Does no one ask these questions?

I wrote to the glaciologist (Ms Conner) a few years ago asking about the forest and she said she only studies glaciers.

John :-#(#

** That tells me nothing about rising sea levels but quite a lot about where John's house is. Mine is about 250 feet above sea level while his may be thousands.

Wot an idiot.

.... Phil

He is right about one thing. We should not be alarmed by one thing alone. There will always be new records set, hot, cold, rain, snow... What we ne ed to pay attention to is the aggregate, not tiny pieces. We want to view the entire elephant, not individual parts like the blind men.

The reality is the warming will be very slow. Nothing will happen in a yea r, or even a decade. But if we continue to let the decades slide by withou t action, we will certainly find ourselves living in a different world wher e climates in many places have changed.

Heck, it is entirely possible John will get his snow year round for skiing. Well, for a while anyway.

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It might be best for you to panic now.

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As we keep installing instruments, many of them badly sited and badly maintained, of course we will keep setting records.

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...and avoid the rush.

Anybody growing sustainable timber knows that it take anything from about forty to a couple of hundred years, depending on the trees involved, the soil they are growing in and amount of water the trees can get at.

Why should they bother? Local climate variations happen as the ocean currents move around. The Multidecadal Atlantic oscillation (discovered in 1993) explains that kind of local effect, and there may be even slower oscillations that we haven't noticed yet.

That's what the label says.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney

here John's house is. Mine is about 250 feet above sea level while his may be thousands.

Australians have more immediate problems with climate change. Sydney's drin king water reservoirs are only 50% full, and the desalination plant that go t put in at the end of the last drought was turned on some months ago and i s now pushing out some 15% of Sydney's drinking water.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney

Are you sure that was the arctic North pole, and not North Pole Alaska wher summer temps are on average of 65 in the summer?

Cheers

John Larkin is particularly susceptible to the denialist nonsense posted on Anthony Watts' propaganda website.

Anthony Watts has a bee in his bonnet about Stevenson boxes, which haven't been front line meteorological instruments for some time now. People who've been trained in the science know better.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney