As forecast, the misinformation from the Hillary-Nuuk meeting is starting to spill out.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
There is rarely if ever any sea ice around Nuuk (red circle below) this time of year. Sea ice around Greenland is right at the 30 year median.
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_daily_extent.png
Here is the view in Nuuk this morning.
http://www.arcticomm.net/webcam/arcticomm_webcam.jpg
April, 2011 was the third coldest April on record in Nuuk. The cold has continued into May, and is forecast to continue for the rest of the month.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/work/gistemp/STATIONS//tmp.431042500000.1.1/station.txt
h/t to Marc Morano and Tom Nelson
Real question. How can it be the thrid coldest April on record according to GISS data when the GISS maps continue to show temperatures well above normal for Greenland?
They showed Nuuk slightly below normal.
Is there a thermometer there?
It’s worse than we thought! Head for the hills!
Here is another cam from the village Qeqertarsuatsiaat 80 km’s south of Nuuk http://www.sermersooq.gl/da/byerne/nuuk/webcam_paa_raadhuset/webcam_qeqertarsuatsiaat.aspx
…unfortunately not updated lately.
New strategy: People before polar bears
16. May 2011 14:47
Polar bears and climate should not determine how developments in Greenland and environs approached. In future, Denmark’s involvement in the northernmost part of the kingdom first and foremost driven by the Greenlanders’ right to growth and prosperity.
It appears from a draft of a new strategy for development in the Arctic, as yet unpublished, but DR is in possession. The Arctic strategy becomes the first of its kind, and was written jointly by Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands with Foreign Minister Lene Espersen as pivot.
The strategy is especially important for oil and gas exploration in Greenland. With this strategy sends the Danish and Greenlandic government jointly a clear signal that the need for environmental and climate should not hamper the hunt for oil in unnecessarily – and the Greenlanders themselves who must determine which rules should apply.
http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Indland/2011/05/16/142751.htm
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People before polar bears, full speed ahead on oil – huh????
Hillary should have taken some Pikas she could set free so they won’t boil in the rockies.
Those with short memories have foregotten that not so many centuries ago , Greenland grew cerial crops . What did polar bears do then ????
What evidence do you have for cereal crops in Greenland?
Why were Greenlanders referred to as the men without bread in the Sprculum regale konungs skuggsja?
SteveS — During the Medieval Warm Period, the Vikings grew wheat in Greenland. Check Google for sources. There are many. The settlement had to be abandoned as the Little Ice Age came on and the colony could no longer be supplied by ship because sea ice made the route impassible. The place was called “Greenland” because it was green. The “men without bread” bit may come from the hardship the changing climate caused as Earth cooled.
Steve S
The odd thing about those that think that the area of Greenland that Leif Erickson told the Vikings was green was not really green is that after the Vikings got there and, according to your ilk, found it was really a frozen tundra, they stayed anyway for 350 years before going back.
The truth is the area of Greenland where those Vikings lived was farmland where crops could be grown during the growing season. It was green. That is why it was called Greenland. It is now, today, permafrost.
It was warmer on earth approximately 1000 years ago during the Medieval Warm Period when Vikings lived on Greenland
Anyone can research it for themselves to see if that is true.
There’s nothing happening in Nuuk. That’s the sum total of Hillary Clinton’s career—nothing.
Except for the singular anomaly on the right-hand side of the chart – the temp record here at Nuuk is, well – not cooperating with the alarmists:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/gistemp_station.py?id=431042500000&data_set=1&num_neighbors=1