7 thoughts on “NASA: OMG, Oceans are Melting Greenland”
Does Ted Cruz know about OMG? What part of the NASA budget is it part of? I hope they buried it somehow in the manned space flight and Mars Exploration budgets so that he won’t try to cut it.
It’s great that this study is occurring, but it amazes me that our response times on following up on new discoveries seem to be so slow—I guess it does take time to ramp up, but the business of warm and salty ocean water melting ice sheets from below is not exactly “new” news.
(And by the way, that play on OMG is clever as hell—at least to my dumb old brain).
Actaully this article is untrue per NOAA. This last ice season Greenland gained back ice but is still below the 1981- 2000 average. The north Atlantic cold spot around Greenland is colder than average and the sea ice lasted a month longer than average.
Context does help.
Like the Arctic dimming up till approx June/July from the smoke and cloud cover from the massive intense polar circle forest and dried out peat bog fires.
The other claim
JAXA shows 2000 average min as 5.48, 2015 min as 4.26, please explain your claim
The north Atlantic cold spot around Greenland is colder than average and the sea ice lasted a month longer than average.
Surprise, surprise and why do you think that is you nugget?
Tell us what happens to your Scotch when you drop ice cubes into it? Other than being a waste of good Scotch that is.
Sheesh! Many years ago when in Fort Lauderdale (via the Grey Funnel Line) I asked for a brandy and was most displeased to find that the bartender had dropped ice in it without as much as a by your leave. When I refused to pay a heavy appeared – but all was fine when he learned what boat I was off. As somebody once remarked (Bryson perhaps), two peoples separated by a common language’.
Does Ted Cruz know about OMG? What part of the NASA budget is it part of? I hope they buried it somehow in the manned space flight and Mars Exploration budgets so that he won’t try to cut it.
It’s great that this study is occurring, but it amazes me that our response times on following up on new discoveries seem to be so slow—I guess it does take time to ramp up, but the business of warm and salty ocean water melting ice sheets from below is not exactly “new” news.
(And by the way, that play on OMG is clever as hell—at least to my dumb old brain).
A shortened history of Northern weather? Nice about ice.
Actaully this article is untrue per NOAA. This last ice season Greenland gained back ice but is still below the 1981- 2000 average. The north Atlantic cold spot around Greenland is colder than average and the sea ice lasted a month longer than average.
Go away Michael—don’t make us give you a noogie!
Context does help.
Like the Arctic dimming up till approx June/July from the smoke and cloud cover from the massive intense polar circle forest and dried out peat bog fires.
The other claim
JAXA shows 2000 average min as 5.48, 2015 min as 4.26, please explain your claim
Sorry my bad,
I quoted Arctic.
However Greenland
http://nsidc.org/greenland-today/
http://polarportal.dk/en/groenlands-indlandsis/nbsp/isens-overflade/
http://www.dmi.dk/en/groenland/maalinger/greenland-ice-sheet-surface-mass-budget/
Surprise, surprise and why do you think that is you nugget?
Tell us what happens to your Scotch when you drop ice cubes into it? Other than being a waste of good Scotch that is.
Sheesh! Many years ago when in Fort Lauderdale (via the Grey Funnel Line) I asked for a brandy and was most displeased to find that the bartender had dropped ice in it without as much as a by your leave. When I refused to pay a heavy appeared – but all was fine when he learned what boat I was off. As somebody once remarked (Bryson perhaps), two peoples separated by a common language’.