Greenland Just Gained A Record-Smashing 7 Gigatons Of Snow/Ice
Impressive surface mass balance (SMB) readings–a calculation to determine the ‘health’ of a glacier––have been posted across the Greenland ice sheet all season, particularly during the so-called summer ‘melt’ season.
Case in point is yesterday’s (Aug 29’s) record-smashing 7 Gigaton GAIN — a reading that would be impressive and at time of year, but one that has entered the books as the largest ever daily gain during the summer (with data extending back to the 1980s).
This unprecedented August GAIN has advanced the ice sheet’s SMB further-above the 1981-2010 mean (grey line):
Greenland continues to defy AGW Party orders, refusing to melt as prophesied.
And this year is far from an anomaly — since 2016, an overall net gain has been observed:
The incompetence/fraud is clearer than ever.
Despite decades of reliable satellite measurements–resulting in unambiguous and unalarming data–the official narrative remains one of fire and brimstone, one hellbent on pushing a suicidal demonizing of affordable and reliable fossil fuels:
And while it is true that the Greenland ice sheet lost mass from around 1995 to 2012, that trend of loss has now reversed, almost completely. Like the gradual turning of a vast ship, from the year’s 2010 to 2015 Greenland’s SMB changed course and has been on an upward trajectory ever since:
And now we have 2021/2022 season ending with a bang and advancing that trend of growth further still, as we can with the chart from August 30th, which added another eight billion tons of snow:
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Editor’s note: 2021 saw no less than 21 days of unprecedented amounts of snowfall, including May 26th. It is not certain how much snow fell that day, because it was quite literally off the chart, but it was at least 12 billion tons:
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Moofsonian Institute.
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For perspective, I gigaton of water is i cubic kilometer .
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers and unknown authors,
While at first I questioned Moofsonian Institute’s perspective but finally I had to agree with it. Which I considered was intended to question what one reads in the article.
However, in creating a better perspective one has to consider that in this kilometer cube of ice there is 1000 layers of ice 1meter thick. Creating an area of 1 meter (little more than 3ft thick) layer of 1000 square kilometers; and an area of a layer of one inch thickness of 36000 square kilometers. And if we multiply this by 7, this inch layer becomes 252000 square kilometer. Hopefully I did my analysis correctly but I didn’t maybe someone will comment about my error.
However, hopefully one gets the idea, from my added perspective, of the difficulty of estimating this 7 gigaton cubic kilometer of increase of ice (per day) just as it is estimate due to the melting of ice. And, given the limited number of sites studied, it obviously makes a difference what sites one choses to observe. The Arctic Ocean has a reported area of 16.5 X 10^6 km^2. Again, for perspective.
Have a good day, Jerry
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Moofsonian Institute.
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Hi Jerry Krause.
Great work on extrapolating and reconfiguring perspective.
It should be noted there are 39.3701 inches: in a metre. A meter is a measuring instrument such as water meter or parking meter.
For further perspective.
It requires approx. 361.8 gigatons of fresh water to raise sea levels by 1 mm. This figure ignores thermal properties of expansion/contraction.
https://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and-climate/estimating-glacier-contribution-to-sea-level-rise/
Have a good day yourself.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Moofsonian and PSI Readers,
I’m trying to direct attention back to. (https://principia-scientific.com/james-webb-telescope-reveals-incredible-views-of-jupiter/) because I believe there much funds,mental understanding that can be learned by just pondering this Imagine of Jupiter and what we have long known about this planet which (fundaments) maybe isn’t correct.
Have a good day, Jerry
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Moofsonian,
Now as I ponder about whomever you are I begin to see more about you. So I ask: Is “361.8 gigatons of fresh water” the amount of ice we see on Greenland in the photos which is proposed by some to raise the level of the Earth’s oceans much more than 1 mm?
Have a good day, Jerry
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Cap.
My emails have a slow turn around because they are moderated for some reason.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Cap,
Visited your website would like to have an email conversation with you here because there is less comment traffic here than at your ‘new site’. I am old but have learned to keep my comments at a moderate length. And I really want to discuss Jupiter. A question is: are you aware of a 56 year weather cycle? You didn’t mention it in your review of much longer cycles.
Have a good day, Jerry
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