The Pakistani official who claimed that Greenland melted in four days, missed by a factor of one million.
At current melt rates, the Greenland ice sheet would take about 13,000 years to melt completely, which would result in a global sea-level rise of more than 21 feet (6.5 meters).
New science upsets calculations on sea level rise, climate change • The Register
Typical for government work.
h/t to Dave G
engineers versus global warming scientist; engineers know the difference between interpolate and extrapolate.
interpolation is a method of constructing new data points within the range of a discrete set of known data points.
extrapolation is the process of estimating, beyond the original observation interval, the value of a variable on the basis of its relationship with another variable. It is similar to interpolation, which produces estimates between known observations, but extrapolation is subject to greater uncertainty and a higher risk of producing meaningless results.
To extrapolate 13,000 years is ludicrous.
This must be that New Sharia Science promoted by our president and NASA.
Don’t be too harsh on Islam. Pachauri is a Hindu, and Hansen is a practicing narcissist.
What they have in common is committment to insane dogma.
Practice makes perfect.
Emotions easily enter in when one believes that human tragedy is human caused.
Almost everybody can be guilty of that bias from their perspective.
Sticking to the facts is the only position that holds up to scrutiny.
Steven, you do good work here.
Pachauri believes in reincaration…
Yet Democrats go after bible thumpers for being stupid just because they believe in God or Creationism. I’m trying to recall which climate scientist was involved… Roy Spencer or John Christy.
1Gt of ice melt = 2.78 microns of sea level rise. AW has a new piece on how corrections for GRACE Greenland data had to be made and now it looks like only 200Gt/yr. loss has occurred since 2003. The latest corrections for GRACE Antarctic data yield a gain of 49Gt/yr of ice mass balance (Gore effect?) . Therefore total Polar loss is 151Gt net x 2.78 microns = 419.78 microns or .41978 mm/yr. of sea level rise contribution. At that rate it will only take 7146 years for sea level to rise 1 meter and drown Tuvalu. We better send money right away!!!!! 😉
Sundance, do you have a link to that?