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Greenland Ice Loss “Worse Than We Thought”
« on: September 04, 2022, 12:55:57 pm »
Greenland Ice Loss “Worse Than We Thought”
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
 
By Paul Homewood

 

It’s worse than we thought!!
 

https://theconversation.com/whats-going-on-with-the-greenland-ice-sheet-its-losing-ice-faster-than-forecast-and-now-irreversibly-committed-to-at-least-10-inches-of-sea-level-rise-185590

I won’t bother copying the whole article, it’s just the usual mixture of lack of long term perspective, computer models and emotionalism.

But below are some of the key segments:
 
Yes, this is what glaciers do!
 
Perhaps instead of subjectively focussing on the last 30 years, he should actually look at the longer term trends. Greenland’s climate is certainly warmer than it was in the 1990s, but equally it was also “significantly cooler” then than it had been 40 years before:

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2022/09/02/greenland-ice-loss-worse-than-we-thought/
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