Reservoir found under Greenland's snow. What it means for shrinking glaciers.

[flacaltenn]

Another article on the under-ice lake.

Massive Newly Discovered Underground Aquifer in Greenland | TIME.com

Gives an interesting point: Between 1998 and 2005, the Greenland ice sheet melted into the ocean at a rate of 121 billion tons a year. But between 2005 and 2010, the melt rate averaged 229 billion tons a year; almost twice as much. If the world's stopped getting warmer, how does that happen?

Too many global warming scientists measuring glacial melt water now that its all the craze?
Kinda like the escalation in number of official tornadoes and hurricanes since Doppler radar.

 

[Abraham3]

Kinda not.

 

[itfitzme]

You knew nothing about that point till you read Marcott - the man you've called every form of idiot - explain it to you.

so why are you having a hard time understanding even though Marcott explained it?

you cannot mix proxy and instrumental data together and give them both the same characteristics. they are fundamentally different.

Yes you can. Temperature may be measured using a mercury thermometer, an electronic thermocouple, a finger and vauge guess, tree rings, and whatever method of measure is available. The end result is a data set with temperature units and a variablity no better than the proxy with the largest variance.

Temperature is temperature is temperature, regardless of how it is measured.

Otherwise, we couldn't utilize a thermocouple or a mercury thermometer and call them the same temperature.