Greenland ice sheet melted at unprecedented rate during July

(Manchester) Guardian ^ | July 24, 2012 | Suzanne Goldenberg

[Zakeet]

The Greenland ice sheet melted at a faster rate this month than at any other time in recorded history, with virtually the entire ice sheet showing signs of thaw.

The rapid melting over just four days was captured by three satellites. It has stunned and alarmed scientists, and deepened fears about the pace and future consequences of climate change.

[tanknetter]

So when will they start raising cattle there, as the Vikings did back in the Medieval Warm Period?

Who cares? The bigger deal are (is?) the remaining "Lost Squadron" P-38s and how it might be a LOT easier to recover them.

[Paladin2]

OMG!

Unexpected and unrepresented.

How long have been measuring daily loss gain, especially during the hottest weeks of the year?

[Paladin2]

OMG!

Unexpected and unrepresented.

How long have we been measuring daily loss gain, especially during the hottest weeks of the year?

[EEGator]

“similar rapid melting occurs about every 150 years”
“...unprecedented...”

Am I missing something?

[Nervous Tick]

>> I think it’s mostly Inuit

I’m an Outuit myself, but what does their belly button shape have to do with it?

[Nervous Tick]

>>“...unprecedented...” Am I missing something?

“When I use a word,” the Environmentalist said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”

[chainsaw]

And the water level in New York harbor hasn’t risen one inch above normal.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

We’ve been warned millions of times by “scientists” that data taken over years or decades does not indicate trends...yet now the sky is falling because the ice melted a bit faster in ONE MONTH? Flip flopping much?

[Red Badger]

The Greenland ice sheet melted at a faster rate this month than at any other time in recorded history,

And that 'recorded history' goes back how far in geologic time? An eye blink at most...........

[EEGator]

How lovely. Words of arbitrary meaning.

[Anti-Bubba182]

"..Scientists attributed the sudden melt to a heat dome, or a burst of unusually warm air, which hovered over Greenland from 8 July until 16 July.

Greenland had returned to more typical summer conditions by 21 or 22 July, Mote told the Guardian..."

Pffttt!!!

[New Jersey Realist]

When will these nuts give this crap up?

[reegs]

[SoConPubbie]

And the one thing these “Climate Scientists” will ignore is.....

Wait for it...

Wait for it.....

The dramatic increase in Solar Flare activity!

[HereInTheHeartland]

We have accurate weather records for a very short time. Maybe 50 years in some areas, 200 in others; possibly longer data collection in older parts of the world.

This is out of thousands of years of weather.

And some people are trying to read into changes they (variations in the recorded data) see as “abnormal”!

We have no idea of what long term “normal” is.

[anoldafvet]

Why do you think they call it GREENLAND?

[KittenClaws]

The dome is believed to have moved over Greenland on 8 July, lingering until 16 July.
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A heat dome? LOL!

[Oratam]

July is the warmest month in the interior of Greenland. I know this to be true because I read it in the Encyclopedia Britannica--11th Edition (1911).

This is not sarcasm.

[planet87]

You should put science within “ “’s

[fatrat]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.