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IPCC Underestimates Greenland Ice Loss

By Bruce Melton PEGlaciers, ice sheet

Greenland’s ice mass loss appears to be 22 percent more than 2013 IPCC suggests. The IPCC uses four major outlet glaciers to define Greenland ice mass loss. The most recent evaluation uses 130 glaciers and nearly 100,000 satellite laser altimetry points across Greenland. This work was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of…

December 5, 2014

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Greenland Glacier Discharge Increases 220% in Summertime

By Bruce Melton PEUncategorized

Ian Bartholomew at Edinburgh University in Scotland said the variability was much stronger than earlier observations of glacier movement in Greenland. The study was published in the journal Nature Geoscience. this behavior was not observed before about the mid 1990s. It was also tat about this time that great icequakes were discovered coming from the…

May 9, 2010

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Remember, average global warming over land is double the global average because of the cooling influence of our oceans and ice sheets, or 3.56 degrees C in December (6.4 F). and the average over the arctic is four times the global average or 7.12 C (12.8 F). Importantly, the increase in extreme temperature is far greater than the average, and extreme weather increases nonlinearly because of the basics of heat and energy physics, where a little warming does not create a little more extremeness in the weather, it creates a lot more.

IPCC Underestimates Greenland Ice Loss

Greenland Glacier Discharge Increases 220% in Summertime

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