Is the Greenland Ice sheet melting at an accelerated pace?

Question

i know the same old debate,some scientists claimed that the sesonal tempartures are 10 degrees higher than normal this year,is this alarmist? and where can i get free downloads on actual temperature reading records data since whenever actual records wheyr'e taken in Greenland?

Answer 1

well sadly, if we keep emitting as much Co2 and methane at the same or accelerated pace as we are now, pretty soon greenland will actually be green.
for where u can get free downloads, i'm sure if you just google it you'll find something. None of us can be of any more help with that part of the question unless our job is to record temperatures, though i doubt it.

Answer 2

No, but they will be used as such "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." See there was an unusual incident of a heat dome which lasted for a few days before conditions returned to normal. Things like that happen all the time. You have a short string of days that are hotter than normal then things return to normal. However, I'm sure Libs will forget about the "returned to normal" part when spouting this as a sign of the end of days.

Answer 3

Hi Yowsie.

You are definitely right about the Greenland ice sheet melting faster than usual.

The other day, I saw a picture that was beautiful. However it was a shock to read what was said about the photo.

The ice has melted so drastically, so much more than has ever been recorded in history. It has melted so much that the Northwest Corridor is now open! The Northwest Corridor was named because it was thought that it would make an excellent shipping lane.

It was never used because of the huge amount of ice. Famous explorers could not get through there. Now, however, it is completely melted; a shipping lane is made for the first time in history.

I do not think it is alarmist to say there is a problem; I think it is alarming.

The Arctic melt season has lengthened by 10–17 days, shrinking the amount of ice buildup that remains from year to year. As sea ice thins and recedes from coastlines, indigenous hunters and fishers are finding themselves cut off from traditional hunting grounds. Coastal communities face more violent and less predictable weather, rising sea levels, and diminishing access to food sources. Polar bears, unable to cross thin or nonexistent ice to hunt seals, will soon face a severely reduced food source. Scientists fear that with continued melting, the bears may become extinct by the end of the century. Seals, walruses, and seabirds will also lose key feeding and breeding grounds along the ice edge.

This is alarming, not alarmist. You are right, Yowsie, that the Greenland ice sheet is melting at an accelerated pace.

The vast ice sheet that coats Greenland up to 2 miles thick is reacting to global warming far faster than scientists thought it would.

It is the acceleration that stuns scientists. Greenland's glaciers are adding up to 58 trillion gallons of water a year to the oceans, more than twice as much as a decade ago and enough to supply more than 250 cities the size of Los Angeles, NASA research shows.

That's particularly unsettling because elaborate climate models that scientists use to estimate the effects of global warming did not foresee it. Scientists themselves never imagined Greenland's ice, which holds enough water to raise sea levels 23 feet and sits in position to influence Northwest weather, would move so quickly.
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Here are a few sites that may give you what you need. One, in particular, lists the actual recorded temperature records for many, many years back.

http://www.earth-policy.org/indicators/ice/2005.htm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11385475/

http:/www.earth-policy.org/indicators/ice/ice_data.htm#fig2

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/270/5235/455

http://www.teachersdomain.org/resources/ess05/sci/ess/watgyc/greenland/index.html

I think the 3rd one I listed has the actual temperature charts you were asking about. (It was a link that was written in the article I read in the 1st site I gave you.) The 1st and the 3rd are both from earth-policy.org.

I hope these are helpful to you.

Best of luck.

P.S.:

Lance — Parlez en anglais, s'il vous plaît. Merci.

Answer 4

Sure it is. It's surpassed any previous level of melting in human history. Here's a couple of summaries. The fact that the ice sheets have been discovered to detach from the underlying land and slide towards the sea has resulted in much faster warming that was predicted even a year ago. They melt around the edges as they break off, fall into the sea, and float away to warmer parts of the ocean. Antarctica has pieces breaking off and floating away that are the size of Connecticut and Delaware. Nothing like that has happened in human times.

It's important to remember there's a seasonal melt/freeze cycle too. We are at the end of the usual melt cycle right now. What you see is that each year as the icecap tries to reform, less and less remains each year. here's a link on both.

Answer 5

Commencer par recommander Holland une Bangaladesh evacutate.La Greenland Ice Sheet la melting supposer nager absolument disaster!

Answer 6

there is NO way global warming has accelerated to the point the temp is increasing by 10 degrees each year. any GW proponent who claims this is beyond delusional -- if the temperature were to raise at that rate the earth would look like venus in a matter of decades. it's not possible.

the mean temp. from year to year has always fluctuated, this is natural. it's not something new at all.

Answer 7

Go to the History Channel. They have a lot of good starts for looking. We as humans are adding to the equation of warming but there is a larger cyclic earth equation going on. Most refuse to acknowledge it even if they are aware of it. The History Channel is only a beginning of your quest but will point you in the directions you are looking for. It is very rewarding, happy trails.

Answer 8

If you look at these diagrams, from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, it looks like it is getting LARGER over the last week! "Global Warming" debunked again!! Sorry Mr Gore.

Answer 9

greenland was green when the viking landed there, maybe we're finally starting to warm back up to where we are supposed to be. wouldn't it be great to have a longer growing cycle in such a large area-Canada-Russia-China.
there are right know studies showing increased wildlife population in some northern areas. i guess that is bad news if you come across a polarbear, but there are more of them. warmer weather and easier for them to get to food.
more food for us, more wildlife, more plant life, yeah these are all terrible things. how can we stop them.
THE SKY IS FALLING THE SKY IS FALLING


greenland holds enough ice to raise the oceans around the world 67.5 metres??? where in the world did that number come from??? FOFLMAO

Answer 10

Greenland ice sheet is growing at some 5,000 sq miles per day.

I wouldn't loose any sleep over it.