Greenland Hits 97 Percent Meltdown in July

Please ignore this. It's a diversion created by the IPCC, Al Gore and the UN to fool us.

ice cores suggest that cap melts this extreme may occur on a regular basis.....

"Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on average. With the last one happening in 1889, this event is right on time," said Lora Koenig, a Goddard glaciologist and a member of the research team analyzing the satellite data in a press release....

There's no news like no news.

Well, it's not exactly no news. It is a once in a lifetime (or two) event for us monkeys, and tells us that this hot summer in North America also coincides with a 150 yr event in the records.

I wonder what else is in the cores, vis a vis other extremes and patterns in that cycle. For example, could we predict when the coldest temps are expected.

I just wonder how that correlates with window unit a/c sales....

Let me think about it for a minute...

Global warming, 150 year cycle...

Ice age, ice sheet covering most everything north or south of the 45th parallels...

What to choose, what to choose? Oh, wait: we can't choose.

We can easily check up on the article by going to the weather station at Summit Station, Greenland:

http://summitcamp.org/status/weather/index?period=month

At present (July 26) the temperature is 3 F with melting impossible (and that is roughly the high for the last 24 hours). The low this month was about -22 F. Did the temperature ever get above freezing in July? Yes, for a few days in mid-July, they had temperatures close to freezing with perhaps a few hours slightly above freezing. If any ice melted, it immediately refroze. Is that sufficient to invoke fears of the whole icecap collapsing? Is it honest reporting to use a photo of sea ice cracking to depict minor glacial melting two miles higher in elevation? Is it honest to ignore the record cold observed at Summit Station on March 18, 2011 when it reached -85 F?

Such is the level of honesty of journalists and the scientists who feed them material. Here is the webcam for Summit Station:

http://summitcamp.org/status/webcam/

Most weather stations world wide show a 30 year decline in or just level temps. guess which one the global warming folks are choosing. In the USA there are just under 800 official weather stations. about 670 of them are now in heat affected zones. the ones not in these zones (the still rural ones) are showing a 30 year drop in average temps. you sure don't hear that in the news.

So you're saying we shouldn't be buying future farmland in the Greenland just yet? 10-4...

Inward-facing beachfront property. The weight of the ice over the last 110,000 years has depressed the central area of Greenland; so much so that the bedrock surface is near or below sea level over most of the interior, but mountains occur around the periphery, confining the sheet along its margins. If the ice disappeared, Greenland would probably appear as an archipelago (albeit a temporary one, when isostacy pushes the bedrock up to its 'normal' altitude).