{"id":276745,"date":"2023-09-01T21:17:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T19:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=276745"},"modified":"2023-09-01T21:17:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T19:17:17","slug":"greenlands-2022-23-ice-coverage-well-above-1981-2010-average-despite-global-boiling-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=276745","title":{"rendered":"Greenland\u2019s 2022-\u201923 Ice Coverage Well Above 1981-2010 Average Despite \u2018Global Boiling\u2019 Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By\u00a0Kenneth Richard<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/em>31. August 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since the early 2000s there has been no net change in the Greenland ice sheet mean annual surface temperature, as well as no net change in melt extent percentage.<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greenland\u2019s ice coverage was, for most of this year (September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2023),\u00a0observed<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to be significantly above the long-term (1981-2010) climate average. The Greenland ice sheet didn\u2019t even cooperate with the narrative during the \u201cglobal boiling\u201d melt months of July and August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Greenland has been defying the narrative for decades now. After a brief, sharp warming\u00a0from 1994 to the early 2000s<\/a><\/strong>, the mean annual land surface temperatures (LST) have been trendless since about 2003. Since 2012, Greenland has been cooling (Fang et al., 2023<\/a><\/strong>). Compare the colorized Greenland temperature trends lineup for 2007-2012 to the 2013-2020 period (bottom).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A trendless temperature record also manifests as non-significant change in melt extent as a percentage of surface area as well as the the mass balance for the whole ice sheet, especially from about 2005 onwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other scientists have also reported Greenland warming \u201cis not evident\u201d (Matsumura et al., 2022<\/a><\/strong>) in recent decades. Instead, temperature stations document net cooling trends from 2001-2019 (Hanna et al., 2021<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since the early 2000s there has been no net change in the Greenland ice sheet mean annual surface temperature, as well as no net change in melt extent percentage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":276758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691821845,691822256],"class_list":["post-276745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-greenland-mass-balance","tag-greenland-temperature","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/00j_Iceberg_Sail_3-3-2018_3.jpeg?fit=1400%2C986&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-19ZD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":412120,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=412120","url_meta":{"origin":276745,"position":0},"title":"Greenland Continues to Defy Alarmist Warming and Ice Melt Narratives","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"11\/08\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"According to a\u00a0new study, Greenland temperature stations indicate there was an abrupt 2.9\u00b0C warming trend from 1922-1932 (10 years) that was almost identical to the 3.1\u00b0C warming trend from 1993-2007 (14 years). 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