Greenland Is Now Gaining More Snow Than Melts

Written by Electroverse on October 13, 2023. Posted in Current News

The Greenland Ice Sheet has been faring incredibly well in recent years with above-average Surface Mass Balance gains as well as a swing back to overall growth noted in Danish Meteorological Institute data

This season has started in similar fashion, too, with record-breaking gains observed on its opening day.

And now most recently (this past weekend), the ice sheet gained a whopping ≈14 gigatons of mass. For those who love dumb, decontextualized headlines, ‘That’s enough to bury Central Park, New York City under approx. 15,000 feet of ice’.

Enlarging the DMI’s daily SMB chart, we see that almost 7 gigatons of snow/ice accumulated on Saturday, followed by the same amount on Sunday:

‘SMB’ is a calculation used to determine the ‘health’ of a glacier.

Greenland’s SMB has held above average for five out of the last seven years, indicating that the glacier is healthy.

But this is news routinely shadow-banned by the AGW Party’s Ministry of Truth.

It would muddy Narrative waters.

Two seasons ago (Sept 2021 – Aug 2022), Greenland posted an SMB gain of 471Gt, ranking it as a top 10 SMB season in books dating back to 1981, and also 27 percent above the 1981-2010 mean.

The season just gone (2022-23) achieved similar gains (article coming soon).

These two season continued a multi-year trend of growth which commenced around 2014.

2017-2018 season:

And while it is true that the Greenland ice sheet lost mass ≈1995 to 2012, that trend has now halted, and reversed — almost completely.

Like the gradual turning of a grand ship, from the year’s 2010 to 2015, Greenland’s SMB changed course and has been on an upward trajectory ever since.

Total Mass Balance (TMB) is a calculation that combines three separate measurements in order to determine the overall health of the ice sheet: SMB (as mentioned), Marine Mass Balance (MMB), and Basal Mass Balance (BMB).

MMB consists of the breaking off (‘calving’) of icebergs and the melting of glaciers that meet the warmer sea waters. BMB refers to ice losses from the base of the sheet, caused by frictional effects/ground heat flux (though in the case of Greenland, this is unimpactful).

The below chart represents the TMB from 1986-2022 (still to be updated with this year’s data).

What it shows is a clear reversal in the ice sheet’s fortunes, an unambiguous cyclical swing toward gains:

The poster boy for global warming is letting the side down.

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