Posted on 06/29/2019 7:21:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the past two months, the news media was filled with pictures and articles about the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. Unfortunately, to their dismay, the sensationalists’ dream of a Greenland melt was halted when the ice levels jumped back up to record highs.
This is just one of the countless incidences in which climate doomsayers have hijacked weather phenomena and used them to push their climate doomsday theories.
Greenland is a massive island covered mostly in ice. Many consider it a good indicator of the global warming trend due to its proximity to the Arctic and its being the only permanent ice sheet outside Antarctica.
Doomsayers and the news media exaggerate even the slightest decline in Greenland’s ice mass. They quickly seize the opportunity and claim that the melting of ice sheets is a direct result of human-induced global warming.
During the past two months, above average ice loss in Greenland provided the right opportunity for the alarmists.
“Greenland’s ‘unusual’ melting sea ice captured in stunning image,” read the BBC headlines on June 18, and I had more than 3 notifications to the article on the same day from Google. “Greenland’s summer melts have started early, and they’re very bad this year,” said another headline on Livescience.
This week, the Press Trust of India released an elaborate news article which claimed a 100 percent ice-free Greenland by the year 3000, if the greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced. CNN quoted a scientist saying “all signs seem to be pointing to a large melt season.”
Much to the disappointment of the alarmist mainstream media, Greenland’s ice mass did a U-turn this past week and gained a massive amount of ice.
The current ice extent is among the highest ever measured (for June 25). The ice surface mass by the fourth week of June was found to be among the highest in 39 years, shooting well above the 1981–2010 mean.
The sudden gain in ice mass may not last longer. However, it does expose the alarmist predictions about historic melting and contradicts their claims that Greenland ice is on a rapid decline.
This is not the first instance where the alarmists are caught hijacking weather phenomena to promote the climate apocalypse.
In 2007, Al Gore made the famous claim that the Arctic summers would be completely ice-free by the early 2010s. But neither did the Arctic become ice-free nor was there any drastic decline in the ice mass. Arctic ice volume is currently at one of its highest levels in the last 11,700 years.
The only major ice mass other than the Arctic and Greenland is found in Antarctica. But Antarctica has largely remained outside the interests of alarmists because of its massive gain in ice mass during the past few decades.
In fact, the story of the Antarctic ice mass gain flies in the face of alarmist doomsday claims, and they’ve tried their best to conceal the news from the mainstream media.
Any well-trained climatologist or student of logic would know that such a conclusion about global warming based on a short-term change in ice mass does not accurately represent the overall trend.
The Greenland story of June, 2019, will be one more addition to the illustrious list of exaggerations made by alarmists in order to achieve climate fear among the public.
“Many consider it a good indicator of the global warming trend due to its proximity to the Arctic and its being the only permanent ice sheet outside Antarctica.”
Say what?
The artic has been warmer than normal...but the rest of the earth cooler..
When the oceans cool again the plant will be cooler..
May take a few years
Go to the daily summary ..you can learn a lot about the weather
If you are comparing two weeks to a 29 year mean, that makes no sense. During the 29 years you we have higher and lower measurements.
Conclusion - there is great variability in the extent of Greenland’s ice pack, from year to year, decade to decade, century to century, era to era and season to season.
Without any CO2 buildup it was once much greener, and the world did not come to an end.
I have followed the global warming scare for a long time starting in college in the late 80’s when Gore was “sounding the alarm.”
I saw through it within a few years because the data has never matched their alarmist hypothesis. Their predictions have been so far off the mark that any rational person sees what the overwhelming body of evidence shows. Global warming is a lie.
Environmentalism is a political movement. The real truth is that the best thing for the environment is a prosperous society.
To paraphrase nuzzlin’ joe: “Three words. It’s summer time up there.”
1. Define the “correct” temperature range for the planet.
2. Define the “correct” humidity range for the planet.
3. Define the “correct” mean sea level for the planet.
4. Define the “correct” amount of precipitation for the planet.
5. Define the “correct” makeup of the atmosphere.
6. Define the “correct” amount of sea ice at the N/S poles.
7. Define/explain past glaciation and subsequent warming without any input from humans.
Man cannot control the weather...
Man cannot control the sun...
It is what it is.....
Man needs to just sit back and enjoy....
They use weather events to prove climate theories.
The weather varies. Ice melts and water freezes. Get used to it!
Ten years earlier and you'd have been taking in Late Great Plant Earth and the coming ice age.
Science starts new each day, just like history.
Gorebull warming is a scam designed to dupe liberal pukes out of their money.
Ten years earlier and you’d have been taking in Late Great Plant Earth and the coming ice age.
Yes. This was one of things I looked closely at when studying the issue. Different set of data and wildly different predictions, but the same results and same solution. Centralized control of the economy and use of taxes to “fix the problem.”
Environmentalism is the perfect sales platform for big government. Create a problem, offer government as a solution, and you can control, touch, and tax everything.
I came to the conclusion that the whole scam is much more accurately described as a “solution in search of a problem.”
A comment for our younger members:
When ice sheets calve icebergs it is due to higher amounts of ice in the interior, not because of ice melting. If ice was melting on an ice sheet the calving would slow down and stop. In other words, Al Gores film of Antarctica ice sheets calving icebergs are proof that the ice sheet is gaining mass in the interior.
Baffin island also has an extensive “permanent ice sheet”.
During the time when we are between ice ages, there is no ice on the planet. Anywhere. Currently we are in the front end of the Quaternary Ice Age.
Not theory, but practical knowledge that has proven to be correct.
No, the quote is correct. There is very little land ice in the north hemisphere - almost all of it in Greenland .
True.
Yes, and when there is no change in the weather, declare your success and the necessity of you staying in charge!
And their civil rights!!!
You won't see this in the New York Times...
Not quite...
Gorebull warming is a scam designed to get liberal pukes to pass laws that steal the money that would normally go to authentic projects.
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