Alarmists claim that the Greenland Ice Sheet is experiencing a massive meltdown, because of a few hours above freezing last summer. Below is a plot of daily maximum temperatures there over the last eight years.
Maximum temperatures have been declining, and average -24C.
There is no meltdown occurring. Greenland is frozen solid.
Hey, looks like good golf weather today! … WOOHOO!
gonna have the first sunrise Golf Tournament soon! my old stomping grounds will see the sun for the first time next tuesday(80 degrees north)…for about 4 minutes!!! i recalled we had an outdoor BBQ that day!!
Can I join you guys? Of course if we play in -41 weather, we had better heat our balls, both the golf ones and the other ones as well!
It must have melted in 2005; there’s a temperature of 29C recorded on that graph and 27C in 2008.
(I guess those are the ones missing the ‘-‘ sign – easy mistake to make but not for a computer)
It looks like those temps in the high 20s occurred in the summer. That makes it unlikely that there was a missing ‘-‘ sign. Negative 29C would be an outlier in the summer even for Greenland.
The political aspect of this global warming dwarfs common sense. The ice that is supposedly missing is being deposited on the other pole (antartic) at a higher than normal deposition. Look it up. The ice is just swapping poles.
hi Steven
this in the gaurdian:-) Polar bears ‘may need to be fed by humans to survive’ http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/07/polar-bears-fed-by-humans-survive?CMP=EMCENVEML1631 Laurel aka ozspeaksup