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Why IF we have Climate Change is it always bad? Oh I know all the Chicken Littles crying THE SKY IS FALLING,THE SKY IS FALLING..Not my religion.
Climate change will eventually make it bad for people living in the sub-temperate/sub-tropic/tropic zones (in NA that means Southern USA/Mexico/Central America)
It's "been summer" for thousands of years now. Why is it melting now? Did the snow just decide to do so in order to further its "liberal agenda"? Damn uppity snow!
It's "been summer" for thousands of years now. Why is it melting now? Did the snow just decide to do so in order to further its "liberal agenda"? Damn uppity snow!
The climate has been warming for thousands of years globally and where I am right now was under a sheet of ice for thousands of years but thankfully global warming over the last 20,000 years or so has melted it all. I am so happy for the global warming where I live and also for Greenland which is now seeing land where once there was just ice.
Do you think you or anyone else can stop the ice in Greenland from melting and if you could, why would you?
It's "been summer" for thousands of years now. Why is it melting now? Did the snow just decide to do so in order to further its "liberal agenda"? Damn uppity snow!
The bottom line is: we don't know yet. There's no consensus.
Our understanding of local ice mass balance is still rudimentary. Give it about ten years and we might have enough data points to see if melts like this are within natural variability. With ten more years of satellite data we could even start parameterizing for them.
Until then, any alarmism over it is politics rather than science.
...and every summer we get the same clap trap about it melting from the nut jobs
You are getting bad info again...
The long term trend since the 1970s is accelerating ice mass loss. This is confirmed by gravity satellite measurements over the past 9 years which find that the rate of ice mass loss has doubled over the last 9 years. Just as with Antarctica, Greenland's ice sheet contribution to rising sea levels is continuously and rapidly growing.
In 1996, the rate of ice mass loss had increased to 97 gigatonnes per year. In 2007, the ice mass loss increased rapidly to 267 gigatonnes per year.
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