Greenland Meltdown!

9 Responses to Greenland Meltdown!

1. William D. Balgord, Ph.D. says:

   January 12, 2011 at 3:32 pm

   Steven:
   Did you really mean to use two “nots” in the
   concluding sentence of your most recent
   post? As it stands, I interpret the statement
   to mean that the preceding analysis suggests
   that there has been warming.
   Bill Balgord
   E&RT, Middleton, WI

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2. Mike Davis says:

   January 12, 2011 at 3:58 pm

   It is apparent that the ice will be gone from that location tomorrow due to the heat. I am going to open my freezer in hopes the cold air will melt the snow on my drive!

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3. Philip Finck says:

   January 12, 2011 at 4:28 pm

   A new paper of interest by Helama, S. at al., (2010) Late Holocene climate variability reconstructed from incremental data from pines and pearl mussels – a multi-proxy comparison of air and subsurface temperatures, in Boreas, Vol. 39, pp. 734 -748.

   In the finoLapland are…Figure 7 shows reconstructed temp during the 30’s – 40’s much higher (approx. 3/4 degree C) than that of the late 1990’s; records from 1767 – 1994.

   Sounds familiar.

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   • Mike Davis says:

     January 12, 2011 at 4:42 pm

     YEP!
     That is why the 30s have been corrected as proof we are experiencing a one of a kind event!

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4. Ole Heinrich says:

   January 12, 2011 at 6:27 pm

   Greenland is soon a lake §.-) http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp2.html

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   • Mike Davis says:

     January 12, 2011 at 6:37 pm

     All that blue must represent water. What else could it be?

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5. Erik says:

   January 12, 2011 at 6:40 pm

   Erik the red: I’ll be back!

   “By the year 1000 amounted Viking communities around. 3,000 people at 300-400 courtyards. Norse Society survived for 500 years. Why they disappeared is still a great mystery, but a COLDER CLIMATE, conflicts with the Inuit, European pirates, overgrazing and plague have been just some of the more qualified bids.”

   Google tranny:
   http://www.visitgreenland.dk/tourist/culture/the-history-of-greenland/the-viking-period/erik-the-red.aspx?lang=da
   Native Danish:
   http://www.visitgreenland.dk/tourist/culture/the-history-of-greenland/the-viking-period/erik-the-red.aspx?lang=da

   A Paleoethnobotanical Investigation of Garden Under Sandet, a Norse age central farmstead (pdf)
   http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq22551.pdf

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   • stevengoddard says:

     January 12, 2011 at 6:45 pm

     They do a lot of grazing on the ice now.

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   • BioBob says:

     January 12, 2011 at 9:08 pm

     I vote for “having a one mile high glacier cover the old homestead is bad” theory.

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