No, Greenland Isn’t Melting at a “Record Rate”
EuroNews has brought us the latest silly ‘Greenland is Melting Away’ scare story:
Rising temperatures are causing sea levels to rise around the world, putting millions at risk of severe flooding and coastal erosion. But in Greenland, the opposite is happening.
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No wonder Trump wants Greenland – he wants to build a resort there a la his place in Florida
“As is always the case, this new study bases its projections on the worst case emissions scenario, RCP 8.5, which is widely regarded by proper scientists as being so inconceivable as to be absurd. It is, however, regularly wheeled out by climate scientists to justify the scare stories demanded by the media and on which their grant money depends”.————————-The IPCC itself though just said a few months ago that “Worst case scenario’s from our climate models are very unlikely to occur”
Scientific fraud all based on unvalidated models. But models full of assumptions are NOT SCIENCE and are not evidence of anything.
Night-stopped Thule air base (as was) in 1980. Bought a case of discounted Michelob from the PX (base shop). Plopped it in the snow for an hour outside the accommodation block. Result: every bottle popped, rock solid ice. Pretty nippy! We’d done a Navex to the North Pole from Bodo (Norway) the previous day in an avionics equipped RAF Brittania. Interesting times.
I went through Kangerlussuaq a couple of times. Walking up to one of the ridges above the valley where the airfield is, the ice was clearly visible in the distance. I had my first experience of 24hr daylight there.
Not a great fan of the cold. VC10, Calgary (-15c) to Patrick AFB, Florida (+25c) called for some juggling of uniform.
Definitely in agreement. Give me the desert anytime.
I was on winter repair in Suffield a few years back, with the wind chill we got down to -50.
Nice Chandleresque writing!
‘Earthy, hard-boiled.’ That’s a Lancashire upbringing for you. Thanks for the compliment.
The Norse settled and farmed Greenland during the medieval warm period. It must have been warmer then.
“Rising temperatures” – temperatures have been rising for 10 000 years or so. That’s what happens when the Earth emerges from an Ice Age.
We know that because there are is no standardised network of measuring instruments covering the Earth’s surface, and that which exists covers less than 20%, nobody can say by how much or whether temperatures are rising all over with any certainty or credibility.
Isn’t this getting ever so boring now?