Surge In Greenland Ice Loss

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Joe Romm and Jeff Spross: "Most climate scientists and glaciologists that Climate Progress has spoken to in recent years have said humanity should plan for at least three feet of sea level rise this century — and considerably more than that if we stay on our current high-end emissions path."​

Surge In Greenland Ice Loss

By Joe Romm and Jeff Spross
March 17, 2014

Greenland’s contribution to global sea level has soared in the past two decades. An important new study finds that the massive northeastern part of the ice sheet, previously thought to be stable, has begun shedding ice. If this trend continues — and researchers say “a self-perpetuating feedback process may have been triggered” — actual sea level rise this century will likely be higher than many current models had projected.

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But the new study, “Sustained mass loss of the northeast Greenland ice sheet triggered by regional warming,” published in Nature Climate Change (subs. req’d), suggests the northeastern portion began melting rapidly around 2003. And after first jumping from an ice loss rate of zero to about 10 billion metric tons per year, it’s now approaching 15 or 20 billion metric tons per year and may well keep accelerating.


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Regional warming has triggered rapid ice loss in a vast portion of the northeastern Greenland Ice Sheet (NEGIS). Red indicates the fastest melting. (Via Ohio State)​

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[westwall]

In 30,000 years I'll care....honestly I will.

 

[SSDD]

In 30,000 years I'll care....honestly I will.

That's assuming that the climate remains static for 30,00 years. Now that would be unprecedented. Could humans cause that?

 

[Old Rocks]

Add the loss from Antarctica, and the rise may be even more dramatic. Of course our "Conservative" assholes don't worry about it, their lives are nearly over, and they don't give a damn about anybody else, not even their own children.

East Antarctica is sliding sideways: Ice loss on West Antarctica affecting mantle flow below -- ScienceDaily

East Antarctica is sliding sideways: Ice loss on West Antarctica affecting mantle flow below
Date:
December 11, 2013
Source:
Ohio State University
Summary:
It's official: East Antarctica is pushing West Antarctica around. Now that West Antarctica is losing weight -- that is, billions of tons of ice per year -- its softer mantle rock is being nudged westward by the harder mantle beneath East Antarctica. This movement is important for understanding current ice loss on the continent, and predicting future ice loss.

 

[Mr. H.]

Hey- that's MISTER "Conservative" asshole to you, bub.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Because of the 6ppm* of CO2 that was added to the atmosphere the past several years? Yeah?


* Measured by the exhaust of an active volcano

 

[TakeAStepBack]

Panic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[westwall]

Add the loss from Antarctica, and the rise may be even more dramatic. Of course our "Conservative" assholes don't worry about it, their lives are nearly over, and they don't give a damn about anybody else, not even their own children.

East Antarctica is sliding sideways: Ice loss on West Antarctica affecting mantle flow below -- ScienceDaily

East Antarctica is sliding sideways: Ice loss on West Antarctica affecting mantle flow below
Date:
December 11, 2013
Source:
Ohio State University
Summary:
It's official: East Antarctica is pushing West Antarctica around. Now that West Antarctica is losing weight -- that is, billions of tons of ice per year -- its softer mantle rock is being nudged westward by the harder mantle beneath East Antarctica. This movement is important for understanding current ice loss on the continent, and predicting future ice loss.

And then olfraud was bitchslapped by the harsh glove of reality....

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Add the loss from Antarctica, and the rise may be even more dramatic. Of course our "Conservative" assholes don't worry about it, their lives are nearly over, and they don't give a damn about anybody else, not even their own children.

East Antarctica is sliding sideways: Ice loss on West Antarctica affecting mantle flow below -- ScienceDaily

East Antarctica is sliding sideways: Ice loss on West Antarctica affecting mantle flow below
Date:
December 11, 2013
Source:
Ohio State University
Summary:
It's official: East Antarctica is pushing West Antarctica around. Now that West Antarctica is losing weight -- that is, billions of tons of ice per year -- its softer mantle rock is being nudged westward by the harder mantle beneath East Antarctica. This movement is important for understanding current ice loss on the continent, and predicting future ice loss.

And then olfraud was bitchslapped by the harsh glove of reality....

The Chart is a "Denier!!!!"

 

[Dot Com]

Add the loss from Antarctica, and the rise may be even more dramatic. Of course our "Conservative" assholes don't worry about it, their lives are nearly over, and they don't give a damn about anybody else, not even their own children.

East Antarctica is sliding sideways: Ice loss on West Antarctica affecting mantle flow below -- ScienceDaily

East Antarctica is sliding sideways: Ice loss on West Antarctica affecting mantle flow below
Date:
December 11, 2013
Source:
Ohio State University
Summary:
It's official: East Antarctica is pushing West Antarctica around. Now that West Antarctica is losing weight -- that is, billions of tons of ice per year -- its softer mantle rock is being nudged westward by the harder mantle beneath East Antarctica. This movement is important for understanding current ice loss on the continent, and predicting future ice loss.

yep. I notice that you mention a specific area then Westwall TRIED to debunk it w/ a chart of the entire Southern hemisphere Deniers lol.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Add the loss from Antarctica, and the rise may be even more dramatic. Of course our "Conservative" assholes don't worry about it, their lives are nearly over, and they don't give a damn about anybody else, not even their own children.

East Antarctica is sliding sideways: Ice loss on West Antarctica affecting mantle flow below -- ScienceDaily

East Antarctica is sliding sideways: Ice loss on West Antarctica affecting mantle flow below
Date:
December 11, 2013
Source:
Ohio State University
Summary:
It's official: East Antarctica is pushing West Antarctica around. Now that West Antarctica is losing weight -- that is, billions of tons of ice per year -- its softer mantle rock is being nudged westward by the harder mantle beneath East Antarctica. This movement is important for understanding current ice loss on the continent, and predicting future ice loss.

Did you mean 'East Anglia'???


Oooops.....I said a no-no.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Add the loss from Antarctica, and the rise may be even more dramatic. Of course our "Conservative" assholes don't worry about it, their lives are nearly over, and they don't give a damn about anybody else, not even their own children.

East Antarctica is sliding sideways: Ice loss on West Antarctica affecting mantle flow below -- ScienceDaily

East Antarctica is sliding sideways: Ice loss on West Antarctica affecting mantle flow below
Date:
December 11, 2013
Source:
Ohio State University
Summary:
It's official: East Antarctica is pushing West Antarctica around. Now that West Antarctica is losing weight -- that is, billions of tons of ice per year -- its softer mantle rock is being nudged westward by the harder mantle beneath East Antarctica. This movement is important for understanding current ice loss on the continent, and predicting future ice loss.

yep. I notice that you mention a specific area then Westwall TRIED to debunk it w/ a chart of the entire Southern hemisphere Deniers lol.

Er, so Global Warming, isn't "Global"?

Do you use a laser pointer to highlight the areas where it's "warming"?

 

[Dot Com]

Add the loss from Antarctica, and the rise may be even more dramatic. Of course our "Conservative" assholes don't worry about it, their lives are nearly over, and they don't give a damn about anybody else, not even their own children.

East Antarctica is sliding sideways: Ice loss on West Antarctica affecting mantle flow below -- ScienceDaily

East Antarctica is sliding sideways: Ice loss on West Antarctica affecting mantle flow below
Date:
December 11, 2013
Source:
Ohio State University
Summary:
It's official: East Antarctica is pushing West Antarctica around. Now that West Antarctica is losing weight -- that is, billions of tons of ice per year -- its softer mantle rock is being nudged westward by the harder mantle beneath East Antarctica. This movement is important for understanding current ice loss on the continent, and predicting future ice loss.

yep. I notice that you mention a specific area then Westwall TRIED to debunk it w/ a chart of the entire Southern hemisphere Deniers lol.

Er, so Global Warming, isn't "Global"?

Do you use a laser pointer to highlight the areas where it's "warming"?

Old Rocks merely posted a link showing that snowpack in a certain area was decreasing so Westwall says "yabut..." then posts a ginormous graph (that only covers two years as well ) covering the entire Southern half of the planet.

 

[westwall]

Add the loss from Antarctica, and the rise may be even more dramatic. Of course our "Conservative" assholes don't worry about it, their lives are nearly over, and they don't give a damn about anybody else, not even their own children.

East Antarctica is sliding sideways: Ice loss on West Antarctica affecting mantle flow below -- ScienceDaily

East Antarctica is sliding sideways: Ice loss on West Antarctica affecting mantle flow below
Date:
December 11, 2013
Source:
Ohio State University
Summary:
It's official: East Antarctica is pushing West Antarctica around. Now that West Antarctica is losing weight -- that is, billions of tons of ice per year -- its softer mantle rock is being nudged westward by the harder mantle beneath East Antarctica. This movement is important for understanding current ice loss on the continent, and predicting future ice loss.

yep. I notice that you mention a specific area then Westwall TRIED to debunk it w/ a chart of the entire Southern hemisphere Deniers lol.

Yes, I was able to debunk olfrauds post by simply pointing out they were only looking at the pimple on olfrauds bum, while I pointed out that the entire bum was putrid....

Pretty easy to do, you silly people always cherry pick your data. The harsh reality bitchslaps you every time.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Loss of ice...that can only mean the Maldives are now totally underwater....right?

I thought the Pacific Ocean ate all the global warming? Did it burp up some of that warming here

 

[Dot Com]

do deniers just make it up as they go along

 

[bedowin62]

millions of poeple live on land that is less than five feet above sea level. if the seas were rising the way left-wing nutjobs say they are millions would already be homeless

 

[Katzndogz]

What happens when a warming cultist is researched?

Is the ice in Greenland in growing decline? Accelerated loss of ice mass could be 'ice shield weather' -- ScienceDaily

They can't really tell.

ERS altimeter survey shows growth of Greenland Ice Sheet interior / Observing the Earth / Our Activities / ESA

In 2005, it was unexplained growth of Greenland's ice.


If there was unexplained growth, then the loss of ice is from the increased ice, which means that the nine year period of observation is too short to draw any conclusions.

What we do know is that warming cultists were so convinced that the Antarctic was losing ice that they went there to document it and got stuck in the ice. Rescue ice breakers also got stuck in the ice.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Arctic blast coming to Eastern US ? likely to be the coldest opening to calendar spring in at least 50 years | Watts Up With That?

 

[westwall]

do deniers just make it up as they go along

That's your specialty dottie. We actually follow where the facts lead us. You manufacture "facts" to suit your pre-conceived political goals.