Greenland’s Ice Melts Thanks To Global Boiling!
By Paul Homewood
One of the babies at the Mail, who claims to be a “Science & Technology Reporter” has fallen hook, line and sinker for this latest dishonest propaganda from NASA:
Shocking before and after photos reveal just how much the Greenland Ice Sheet melted during the ‘hottest month ever recorded on Earth’.
Taken on June 14, the first image snapped by a US satellite shows the Greenland Ice Sheet just before baking summer temperatures took hold.
Meanwhile, the second image from July 24 shows the same region with substantially less snow cover and patches of ‘dirty’ ice where impurities have become exposed.
According to scientists, snow falls on the Greenland Ice Sheet every winter and acts as a protective layer for the glacier ice underneath during the summer.
But experts say hotter summer temperatures are reducing the amount of snow cover and leaving the ice more prone to melting – contributing to sea level rises.
Before & After
A clue for Mr Chadwick – snow falls in winter on Greenland, and in summer it melts. If it did not melt, the ice cap would grow every year.
By the time we get to winter, all of that area in the image will be covered with snow again.
Every summer the Greenland ice cap loses approximately 200 Gt, and this summer is no different.
In fact, the snow melt began much later than normal, thanks to a cold, snowy June. As a consequence, the Surface Mass Balance of the ice cap is greater than average.
http://polarportal.dk/en/greenland/surface-conditions/
Maybe in future the Mail might find a reporter who actually understands these things to write articles on Greenland’s ice cap.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Just more desperate lies from the green loonies trying to keep the Global Warming scam going .
July was not the hottest ever , like most of their other lies .https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/03/top-climate-scientists-rubbish-claims-july-was-the-hottest-month-ever-public-being-misinformed-on-a-massive-scale/
And melt in Greenland only usually lasts for about 2 months , while the rest of the year ice levels are increasing .
Seasonal Change not Climatic change:
Siberia in winter 08Jan2023
Siberia in summer 06Aug2023
“Maybe in future the Mail might find a reporter who actually understands these things to write articles on Greenland’s ice cap.”
Paul—I can’t think of anyone more qualified than yourself. Is it worth a go?
Would never be printed. There are very powerful people with a vested interest in keeping the
scamscare going. Private jets and mega-yachts don’t grow on trees.There was something very odd about the area of melt that was shown by DMI. It was TWICE normal throughout a month. Like, 70% versus 35% In remote locations where it was actually snowing at the time, according to the SMB.
I do not believe it. The DMI has ‘form’ when it comes to throwing the CAGW crowd a bone of some sort every year. Of course, the DMI says explicitly in the Notes that the melt area is NOT simply where the ice-sheet is disappearing. So they cover themselves and can say, “Not our fault if the great unwashed use our stuff wrongly.”
Pore Norses, who was farming in the snow during the MWP on Greenland … [/sark]
Keeping up with all the climate alarmist non-stories is a tough job.
Commenting on the Mail article has been turned off…..they were taking a hammering.
The comments on the Daily Mail are usually more entertaining than the report. I was particularly taken with the one that recommended watching “Don’t Look Up” for Deniers. Top worst rated comment funnily enough
‘But experts say hotter summer temperatures are reducing the amount of snow cover’
Well, if experts say it, it must be true.
‘and leaving the ice more prone to melting’
More likely is not a force.
‘contributing to sea level rises’
More weasel words. ‘Contributing to’ doesn’t mean “caused,” but that’s what the manipulative Bastets want you to believe.
I care less about melting Greenland ice sheet than the ice melting in my Singapore sling. The Mails’ report is that 1. Ice is melting, 2. Why should you care? because it makes sea level rise. They didn’t report sea level is rising, caused by Greenland ice sheet melt. What was sea level on June 14 and again on July 24? What was the change? Did it go up? THAT is what we are supposed to be concerned about. Give us the data. Of course, they don’t even have the data; it’s not important to their story.
“Greenland ice is melting, OH MY!” is juvenile. But passes for news in today’s climate.
The experts are presumably using the PROMICE automatic weather stations scattered across Greenland. There are links on the Surface Conditions page but they don’t work.
The PROMICE stations can be found here
there are links to data downloads but I’ve never tried downloading or looking at the data.
Second rate journalists can only drive fear as good news is anathema to them. We know who they are, the trouble is they do not.
That will be same DM telling Sunak to scrap the 2030 ice deadline or not to allow onshore windmills
One good snow right about now – even a couple of inches would do – and the following day the image would look exactly like the June 14th image.
I note that comments on the DM article have closed after only one day…
Good catch, Paul. One always needs to look at actual data and facts.L:inking this today @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
The most pessimistic estimate for Greenland annual loss of ice mass is 240 Gt/y. The mass of ice is about 2.9 million Gt, so it would take 10,000 years to melt if it carried on forever at this rate: totally unlikely given historical changes that have occurred: I would suggest that we don’t need to worry about this.
“…we don’t need to worry about this…”
The human race should have stopped worrying once as it reached the top of the food-chain. Unfortunately it does worry. We seem to have inherited from our former life as prey an exaggerated “startle” response to the unusual.
Having an imagination is a burden.
The emphasis on objectively meaningless things, such as the “health” of the ice in Greenland, seems a recrudescence of the universal folk belief in the separable soul and “life-tokens.”
Primitive man thought death was UN-natural, since in his world, nobody died of simple old age; and to avoid death one could put one’s soul or essence into a remote place in something tangible. It might be a tree for instance. Thus a man going on a dangerous journey would say to his relatives. “If the tree has leaves I am well. If the leaves are shaking I am in danger. If the leaves die I am dead. Take care of my tree as you would me.” There is also a touch of sympathetic magic in all this.
So we realize that our typical BBC man is saying little more than, “The ice is melting and dying; and so we are melting and dying!”
“We seem to have inherited from our former life as prey an exaggerated “startle” response to the unusual.
Having an imagination is a burden.”
It doesn’t even take “startle.”
You walk into the kitchen for something, yet you can’t remember what it was you came for.
In our minds, entering the kitchen is no different than entering a cave. We scan this new environment for any hazards. Once we’ve scanned, we don’t remember. Our focus changed.
And what about showing us the same photos from last year? Anyone else suspect that they may be remarkably similar?
The Rutgers University Snow Lab data Monthly extent data
http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/table_area.php?ui_set=1&ui_sort=0
shows a significant (1%) increase in monthly snow cover (November 1966 to July 2023) of 985.6 km2 per year.