http://www.summitcamp.org/status/weather/index?period=month
Can someone count the number of melt days (over 0C) in the interior of the Greenland ice sheet this summer? Thanks in advance – I’m too busy to do it myself.
http://www.summitcamp.org/status/weather/index?period=month
Can someone count the number of melt days (over 0C) in the interior of the Greenland ice sheet this summer? Thanks in advance – I’m too busy to do it myself.
It doesn’t matter what the surface temperature is. All that ice is trapping heat deep inside the glaciers. And all climate scientists know that coldheat is way more dangerous than normal heat. That is why Greenland is melting…… as demonstrated/predicted by climate models. As long as we can keep the satellites tuned to the climate model outputs, everything will be just right……as predicted/demonstrated by climate models./sarc.
Yes, I can count them.
Is someone else willing to help and count the endless number of melting ponds in Greenland?
http://www.arctic.io/observations/32/2011-07-17/9-N69-W48/Greenland
I guess the words, “in the interior of the Greenland”, went right over the top of your head. Try again, sparky.
You have qualified yourself to count melting ponds in the exterior. Come back with a concrete number. I’ll help you passing 3.
Look, I wasn’t the one showing pictures in an attempt to mislead readers, you were. I don’t need to count coastal water holes, and it isn’t relevant to the discussion. But, you knew that. You were just behaving in a typical alarmist fashion. Thanks for playing.
Given that the normal temperature along the coast in July is in the 60s, it wouldn’t be too surprising that some of the nearby ice would melt?
Steven:
That would be a pretty good guess. Of course that destroys another claim that air temperature over ice can not be much above freezing like some fool claimed on the Arctic thread.
Over a large body of ice air temperatures can’t get much above freezing
And Greenland is?
The coast of Greenland is a maritime environment.
You really will have to try harder than that IO. The June temps in Godthab near to the coordinates you give were 4.6C last month. Their average in the 1920’s which was certainly not the warmest decade of the 20th C were – wait for it – 5.4C.
I’ll leave you to work out how much June has warmed in the last 90 years.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/work/gistemp/STATIONS//tmp.431042500000.1.1/station.txt
There is an interesting photo taken in July 1970 in Greenland. Can’t see many melt holes there.
http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Denmark/Other/Greenland/Scoresby_Sund/photo915583.htm