Greenland loses 11 billion tons of ice in one day
That sounds bad. Very scary! Should we run and hide?
Better yet what does that mean exactly? How much ice does Greenland lose to sublimation each day? That where the ice turns to vapor directly. How much does it lose to calving; Ice breaking off the sheet into the ocean. How much did it gain last winter from the snow that fell and did not melt away? See without perspective and additional information this is meaningless.
Hillary Clinton, the girl most of us want to cheat off of on the next test, she IS the smartest person in the room, tweeted that this rate of melt is not expected until 2070; and that is the cause for alarm. I can accept that. You have a failed climate change model and you have no clue what is going to happen, but you are sure the model is correct, when each prediction is wrong but this surely means we are heading to the conclusion even faster? Maybe. Or the model we are using is useless and needs to be reworked and redone without the false assumptions.
What are we worried about Greenland and its ice sheet anyways? The worry is this, 10 000 years ago a meteor crashed into Hudson Bay and cause an enormous melt of the tundra and ice. This cold water flushed into the Atlantic and shut down the Gulf Stream. The Gulf Stream is the warm water from Mexico and Caribbean that comes north to warm Europe and Scandinavia allowing them to have a less harsh winter. So let’s see, the warm water rushing north is causing Europe to burn with too much heat but we are worried that the cold water from Greenland will shut this down? Would not a little extra cold water ease Europe from the heat stroke it is collectively having this summer? The Gulf Stream is too hot, so it melts the ice cooling it down until they get back to equilibrium? Yes, sorry, it seems that is not how things work in climate science. Cause and effect are different when talking about the COMING DOOM.
1000 years ago, the Viking settled the island because it was green, hence its name Greenland. It froze over. Hence, today, it is not nearly as warm or as green as it was 1000 years ago. Farming ended on the island as people could no longer find viability there and returned to Europe around mid 15th century. By which time, their diet was not grown but fished and caught sea mammals. They could no longer farm perhaps for centuries due to the ending of the medieval Cooling period around 1250 AD. So Europe was cold, Greenland was warm enough to farm. Now Europe is burning and Greenland is melting. What’s your point here? When the climate was cooling, the island of Greenland could still have viable farming. When the climate in Europe was warming, the island of Greenland could no longer be farmed! Now both seemingly are melting or are they?
This works out to 200 billion tons per year due to calving. That is how much ice falls off the ice sheet per year. How much is that per day? 0.54 GT per day. So 11 GT on a single day is a lot. How much would expect to see melt on a normal day? 60-70 GT per month or about 2 GT per day. So between the two, we have a loss of 2.5 GT per day versus a single day’s loss of 11 GT. A significant increase 4.4 times greater than the normal daily average. Or we may sum this up as a shocking loss equivalent to 4 and half days in one. OMG! It is much scarier to say 11 billion tonnes lost in a single day they say it lost 5 days of normal melting. Remember too, this is the average amount lost, not account for the highs and lows such that a normal peak might be only half that found this day!
Why bother to do science when you can just scare people into buying whatever garbage you want to toss out!
11 billion tonnes! So? Put in this headline instead. Greenland loses in a single the amount of ice that they would have lost in 4.4 days! Ya, you can see it just does not have the same scare factor.
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