Greenland is losing so much ice that its gravity is getting weaker: researcher. KEK

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Floating ice breaking off = glacier calving.

Glaciers are literally rivers of ice, they flow.

30 million tons (30,000,000,000kg) of ice per hour = ~8.3 m³ /s equivalent of water.

This is effectively for all glaciers flowing off of Greenland (equivalent to all combined river flow).

Just for comparison, flow rates of some individual rivers: - Amazon: 224,000 m³ /s - Danube: 6,546 m³ /s - Niagara: 5,885 m³ /s

The Greenland Ice Sheet is about 2.9 million cubic kilometers, assuming 1 ton per m^3, that would be 2,900,000 mega tons. Losing 30 mega tons per hour is losing 0.001% per hour. However, this "loss" figure almost certainly does not account for ice mass gain due to snow, so you need to look at net ice mass. This is called Surface Mass Balance (SMB). The Greenland Ice Sheet gains a significant amount of ice through snow fall each year, and currently loses a little more than it gains. This is because we are coming out of the Little Ice Age, where the size of the ice sheets increased substantially. This has been compounded by a warm phase of the AMO (Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation), that has recently peaked and will soon be moving into a cooling phase.

Basically, looking at the calving, they are only looking at one side of the equation. This is a common tactic of the climate alarmists. Can you imagine if they tried the same thing with rivers? Oh my God! The Amazon Rainforest is LOSING 806,400,000,000,000 Liters of water per hour (224GL/s * 3600)!!!! At this rate, the Amazon will be a desert by mid next year!! Won't somebody think of the children!

Other things to note....

The sea ice that is calving off is almost always already floating in the Ocean. This means that it will have little to no effect on sea levels, the ice is already displacing its mass in the Ocean. These fucking morons must worry about their drinks overflowing when the ice in them melts or something.

The weather in Greenland has zero effect on the melting of the ice sheet. The temperatures there are so seldom above freezing that it makes no difference, a warming of 1C or even 2C, when the temperature is -30C is irrelevant. Sometimes, during specific weather patterns, they get warm spells that cause surface melting, but that has little to no effect on the overall mass balance. Ablation of ice due to low humidity and high winds would cause more loss than that. What controls the melting of the sea ice surrounding Greenland is Ocean temperature. That is controlled by the Ocean currents, primarily the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). This current waxes and wanes in a cycle that lasts ~60-80 years (the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation), which brings warmer or cooler water to the coast of Greenland.

Floating ice breaking off = glacier calving. Glaciers are literally rivers of ice, they flow. 30 million tons (30,000,000,000kg) of ice per hour = ~8.3 m^3 /s equivalent of water. This is effectively for all glaciers flowing off of Greenland (equivalent to all combined river flow). Just for comparison, flow rates of some **individual** rivers: - Amazon: 224,000 m^3 /s - Danube: 6,546 m^3 /s - Niagara: 5,885 m^3 /s The Greenland Ice Sheet is about 2.9 million cubic kilometers, assuming 1 ton per m^3, that would be 2,900,000 mega tons. Losing 30 mega tons per hour is losing 0.001% per hour. However, this "loss" figure almost certainly does not account for ice mass gain due to snow, so you need to look at net ice mass. This is called Surface Mass Balance (SMB). The Greenland Ice Sheet gains a significant amount of ice through snow fall each year, and currently loses a little more than it gains. This is because we are coming out of the Little Ice Age, where the size of the ice sheets increased substantially. This has been compounded by a warm phase of the AMO (Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation), that has recently peaked and will soon be moving into a cooling phase. Basically, looking at the calving, they are only looking at one side of the equation. This is a common tactic of the climate alarmists. Can you imagine if they tried the same thing with rivers? Oh my God! The Amazon Rainforest is LOSING 806,400,000,000,000 Liters of water per hour (224GL/s * 3600)!!!! At this rate, the Amazon will be a desert by mid next year!! Won't somebody think of the children! ---- Other things to note.... The sea ice that is calving off is almost always already floating in the Ocean. This means that it will have little to no effect on sea levels, the ice is already displacing its mass in the Ocean. These fucking morons must worry about their drinks overflowing when the ice in them melts or something. The weather in Greenland has zero effect on the melting of the ice sheet. The temperatures there are so seldom above freezing that it makes no difference, a warming of 1C or even 2C, when the temperature is -30C is irrelevant. Sometimes, during specific weather patterns, they get warm spells that cause surface melting, but that has little to no effect on the overall mass balance. Ablation of ice due to low humidity and high winds would cause more loss than that. What controls the melting of the sea ice surrounding Greenland is Ocean temperature. That is controlled by the Ocean currents, primarily the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). This current waxes and wanes in a cycle that lasts ~60-80 years (the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation), which brings warmer or cooler water to the coast of Greenland.

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So as Greenland begins to get smaller, its gravity begins to get weaker, and that water that it holds tight begins to slosh away to faraway places in the world where the gravity is not weakening.

LMFAO!

Whoever wrote this shit is... I don't have the words to express my astonishment. This is supposedly a real article and not an April fools joke. Reality is slipping away from people really quickly. If the vaccine doesn't get them, stupidity will.

Wait!

Climate change is having a profound effect in Greenland, where over the last several decades summers have become longer

Ok, so apparently Greenland has different summer lengths than other countries in the world. I'd love to understand how that occurs. I learned the earth is essentially a sphere and every place on the earth has exactly the same length seasons.

LOL

If you factor in the entire ice sheet, including below sea level

Wait! If you say "The entire ice sheet", wouldn't that normally include the entire ice sheet? Isn't the ice below the water line still part of the ice sheet?

the total ice loss is around 9,000 and 10,000 tonnes a second, he estimated.

LMFAO! Where the fuck are you getting this data from? Did you stop for a microsecond to consider how much water that is? Of course not.

Greene isn't sure exactly how much it's currenlly being weakened, however

KEK. He isn't sure about much. What a total moron.

Oh, there's a lot more humor, I only scratched the surface. This moron thinks that water can be different heights in different places. I guess it never occurred to him that ocean water is all the same height, except for lakes and streams.

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It's funny when they worry about sea level rise caused by the melting of ice that is already floating in the Ocean.

Almost every glacier has retreated over the past few decades

Except, that they have started growing again in recent years (although, apparently the glaciers growing again is just more evidence of "Climate Emergency"). Of course they were retreating over the last few decades (the warm phase of the AMO), that's what happens. Then, they start to advance again, but will in net effect retreat over the longer timespan as we are now at a climate optimum which runs on a ~1000 year cycle. Over the next 500 or so years, they would be likely to grow significantly again. It's all cyclic, and these morons can't get past putting a linear projection on a segment that is > 1/2 a wavelength of any significant cycle.

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Yep.

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