Arctic sea ice extent is up 40% from this date five years ago.
Greenland’s surface gained ten times as much ice as it did five years ago, and was the fifth highest on record.
Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2017 | Carbon Brief
Greenland’s most famous glacier, the Petermann Glacier, has grown substantially and steadily over the past five years.
This is a big change from 1939, when the glaciers of Greenland and Norway were facing catastrophic collapse.
17 Dec 1939, Page 15 – Harrisburg Sunday Courier
NASA responded quite predictably to the inconvenient 1930’s warmth in the Eastern Arctic – by simply trying to erase it.
Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis
It is also a big change from 65 years ago, when the glaciers of Norway and Alaska had lost half their mass, and threatened to drown seaports.
18 Feb 1952 – POLAR ICE THAW INCREASING
Climate scientists have responded to this years large Arctic ice gain by doing the only thing they know how to do – lie about it.
