Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Greenland ice balance

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He always puts his boilerplate about sunspots on the bottom, but he has done what I cannot.  He has penetrated the Danish on that site to get something.  

Greenland gains ice volume in the winter and loses it in the summer, just like the Arctic and other side. The ice is so thick that the satellite radar has no hope to penetrate.  Thus, everything is just a guess.  A healthy glacier pours out ice into the sea, and a sick glacier just withers.

Nevertheless, we enter the warmie time, when every ice cube into the ocean signifies horrible volume loss.   And rising seas.  Such wonderful fantasy.  

2 comments:

Penny said...

Isn't the idea of ice breaking off, in the sea and causing sea level rises to occur sort of nonsensical. Thinking of displacement that is already happening? I can't see it? Perhaps it's my misunderstanding?

And when a glacier calves a good chunk of ice isn't it because the glacier is growing?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234494422_Growing_and_Advancing_Calving_Glaciers_in_Alaska

Growing and Advancing Calving Glaciers in Alaska

"10 large glaciers are increasing in volume and advancing. All of these are calving glaciers that are advancing into seawater. Hubbard Glacier, at the head of Disenchantment Bay near Yakutat, Alaska, is one of the advancing glaciers and is the largest calving glacier on the North American Continent. Hubbard Glacier?s current advance began shortly before 1895 and has recently been newsworthy because its advance blocked the entrance to Russell Fiord between June and August 2002. Other prominent examples are Meares Glacier, at the head of Unakwik Inlet in Prince William Sound, which is advancing into old-growth forest, and Harvard Glacier, at the head of College Fiord, which has a well-documented history of advance beginning between 1905 and 1911. Calving glaciers that are currently growing and advancing have at least four things in common......"

older piece but it makes my point

Harold Asmis said...

Physics has no role in warmieism.