Greenland Heatindexwave Continues

4 Responses to Greenland Heatindexwave Continues

1. Michael D Smith says:

   July 28, 2011 at 2:54 pm

   OT: Arctic scientist under investigation
   http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/07/28/2119438/apnewsbreak-arctic-scientist-under.html
   Do you have a proper spot for leaving notes like this?

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2. Venkman says:

   July 28, 2011 at 4:20 pm

   25C according to my local paper in greenland;

   “They must have been shocked by what they found; glaciers shouldn’t just melt like that in July.

   “It shows the extent of global warming.

   “In the village they’re in now the temperature is 25C, which is unheard of there.

   http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/ice-rescue-for-cumbrian-men-on-greenland-trekking-holiday-1.862441?referrerPath=home

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   • Grumpy Grampy ;) says:

     July 28, 2011 at 4:46 pm

     A small step in the right direction!

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3. gator69 says:

   July 28, 2011 at 7:40 pm

   “Until recently, the instrumental air temperature record for Greenland, an epicenter of glacial study and climate reconstruction, was confined to the period 1873 to present. However, recent collaboration between the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) and the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (United Kingdom) has resulted in the compilation of instrumental data for 13 stations along the southern and western coasts of Greenland that date back to 1784. The data represent the addition of 74 complete winters and 52 complete summers to the previous record along roughly the southern two-thirds of the western Greenland coastline.”

   “The extended surface air temperature record was constructed and analyzed by a group of researchers from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), and the aforementioned CRU (United Kingdom) and DMI (Denmark) (Vinther et al. 2006). In satisfying a major priority of the work, the temperature record clearly verifies ice core records for Greenland. A second priority of contextualizing the recent climate of Greenland has resulted in further complication of the global warming debate. As the popularized side of the debate has led us to expect, the authors found that the coldest year (1863) and the coldest decade (1810s) are early in the record, well before the ballyhooed warming of the 20th century. Problematic from a climate change standpoint is the fact that the two distinct cold periods that made the 1810s the coldest decade followed an 1809 “unidentified” volcanic eruption and the eruption of Tambora in 1815 – unusual geologic events that defined the climate. However, of greater importance is the fact that the researchers found the warmest year on record to be 1941, while the 1930s and 1940s are the warmest decades on record. This represents very bad news for climate change alarmists, since the warmest period was NOT the last quarter of the 20th century. In fact, the last two decades of the 20th century (1981-1990 and 1991-2000) were colder across the study area than any of the previous six decades, dating back to the 1900s and 1910s. When examining the instrumental records of the stations it is apparent that no net warming has occurred since the warm period of the 1930s and 1940s.”

   This explains why we see so few shipments of oranges from Greenland lateley.

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