Exceptional Springtime Mildness Continues To Plague Rapidly Melting Greenland

6 Responses to Exceptional Springtime Mildness Continues To Plague Rapidly Melting Greenland

1. Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

   April 4, 2011 at 12:11 pm

   Glaciers have varying mass balances even in a global sense. If one particular glacier has a higher accumulation rate from precipitation than ablation then the glacier will grow/advance. Inversely, the glacier would retreat if the ablation r…ate from melting and calving etc exceeded the accumulation rate. Not all glaciers are retreating, a vast majority are but not all. A common misconception are the response times of glaciers. The Antarctic ice sheet for example has a response time to climate change of 1000+ years so what we are seeing today is essentially a reflection of what the climate was like that long ago.

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2. AndyW says:

   April 4, 2011 at 12:17 pm

   That looks like Baffin Island

   Andy

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   • stevengoddard says:

     April 4, 2011 at 12:40 pm

     Oddly enough, not very many people live on the Greenland ice sheet.

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     • suyts says:

       April 4, 2011 at 1:32 pm

       lol

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3. Edward says:

   April 4, 2011 at 1:58 pm

   Rapidly melting? Oh yeah, at this rate…..er it’s gonna take a few hundred millennia and then some, panic over.

   F&£*wits.

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4. Andy Weiss says:

   April 4, 2011 at 2:59 pm

   Only five months to go before the ice-free Arctic reaches a tipping point!

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