{"id":272682,"date":"2023-08-10T21:31:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T19:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=272682"},"modified":"2023-08-10T21:31:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T19:31:12","slug":"claims-that-global-boiling-led-to-shocking-melting-of-greenland-ice-sheet-are-nonsense-the-ice-sheet-is-currently-bigger-than-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=272682","title":{"rendered":"Claims that \u2018Global Boiling\u2019 Led to \u201cShocking\u201d Melting of Greenland Ice Sheet are Nonsense \u2013 the Ice Sheet is Currently Bigger Than Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By \u00a0CHRIS MORRISON<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The new era of \u2018global boiling\u2019 has brought a return of the much loved climate scare story featuring the imminent demise of the Greenland ice sheet. The\u00a0Daily Mail\u00a0<\/em>recently ran a headline noting the \u2018Impact of Global Boiling<\/a>\u2018, saying it has \u201cshocking\u201d photos showing how much the ice sheet has melted during the \u201chottest month ever recorded on Earth\u201d. Snow melt is said to be higher than the 1981-2010 average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, alas, those who strive for accuracy in these matters are likely to quibble. The Earth is not \u201cboiling\u201d \u2013 that is the unhinged raving of the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres \u2013 the claim about July comes from a computer model, while \u201cever\u201d refers to data of varying quality going back barely 150 years. Furthermore, the surface balance of ice on the Greenland ice sheet is higher than the 1981-2010 average, and could improve on last\u2019s year performance, when there was little or no loss of the surface mass after the brief summer melting season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If the\u00a0Mail<\/em>\u00a0is \u201cshocked\u201d by how much the Greenland ice sheet has melted this year, it probably didn\u2019t consult the\u00a0polar portal site<\/a>\u00a0run by Danish meteorologists, which updates an accurate record on a daily basis. Both graphs above show the effect of a cold June where the ice loss was considerably lower than the previous year. Warmer weather arrived from the south in late June in time for the peak summer melt season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the second graph shows, the accumulation of surface ice on Greenland is more than the 1981-2010 average, and a big improvement on a decade ago. But as the\u00a0Daily Sceptic<\/em>\u00a0noted recently<\/a>, the current improvement can be seen in an even better light. A number of scientific institutions still use a decadal 1981-2010 average for comparison purposes, despite data to 2020 being available. The cynical might note that the ice sheet lost just 51 gigatonnes a year in the 1980s, compared to an annual loss of 244 gts in the 2010s. Updating the average figure would greatly amplify the recent, and continuing, recovery in the surface ice mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201dshocking\u201d before and after photos revealing how snow melts in the summer, even in Greenland, were taken by NASA satellites over the Frederikshab Glacier running down to the warmer south-west coast. The information and photos came from a\u00a0NASA blog<\/a>\u00a0aimed at educators headed \u2018Wasting Away (Again) in Greenland<\/a>\u2018. More than halfway through the 2023 melting season, reports NASA, \u201cGreenland has seen a substantial transformation of its snow cover\u201d. This line \u2013 if it\u2019s summer in Greenland, the snow melts \u2013 is readily taken up by the\u00a0Mail<\/em>. \u201cAccording to scientists, snow falls on the Greenland ice sheet every winter\u2026 but experts say hotter summer temperatures are reducing the amount of snow cover.\u201d The NASA blog is heavily quoted: \u201cMore than halfway through the 2023 melting season, Greenland has seen a substantial transformation of its snow cover. \u2026 Changes are the result of the increasing warmth of summer weather that took hold across the region in late June.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hold the front page \u2013 snow melts during the summer in Greenland, not many dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not difficult to find areas of rock in Greenland, especially in the south-west where most of the population of 55,000 live. The climate in this area is characterised as \u2018low Arctic\u2019 and temperatures are well above freezing in the warmest months. Ice in the Arctic waxes and wanes on a cyclical basis, while the long-term Greenland temperature is fairly stable. At a time when the planet has seen a gentle period of warming over the last 100 years, Greenland even held back slightly on the general trend. The five-year moving average of -18.57\u00b0C in 1929 compares with a measurement in 2021 of \u201317.96\u00b0C. The largest boost, as with other areas of the world, occurred in a short period in the 1980s and 90s, as the\u00a0World Bank graph<\/a>\u00a0below shows. Since that time, as elsewhere, the rate of warming has considerably declined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Greenland ice sheet is the alarmist scare story that keeps on giving because water flowing off the land can increase sea levels. The\u00a0Mail<\/em>\u00a0notes that scientists have already warned this year that the Greenland ice sheet is the \u201chottest it has ever been\u201d and will cause global sea levels to rise by 20 inches by 2100 if it keeps warming at the same pace. In fact this information is linked to an\u00a0earlier article<\/a>\u00a0that referenced a science paper quoting temperatures between 2000-2011. The next paragraph of the current story reports a rise of four feet or 1.2 metres by 2300, \u201ceven if we meet the 2015 Paris climate goals, scientists have warned\u201d. Scientists might \u201cwarn\u201d, but all these opinions of greatly increased sea level rises are produced by climate models, often assuming outlandish future scenarios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, as we have noted in numerous articles, sea level rises are notoriously difficult to calculate since land rises as huge weights are lifted from it. Many areas in the northern hemisphere show falls in coastal sea levels, and this process is ongoing since the Earth is currently in an interglacial phase. In fact, current rises of 2mm a year are tiny compared with the huge boosts between 12,000 to 4,000 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, hold that front page \u2013 shock 2mm annual rise will lead to civilisation being inundated in the next century by a catastrophic seven inch increase in sea levels. Not many expected to die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Morrison is<\/em>\u00a0the\u00a0<\/em>Daily Sceptic\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Environment Editor.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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