OMG… Greenland’s ice sheets are melting fast

[EternalOptimist]

Based on the title of the thread...
Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier sheds big ice chunk - BBC News


...of course, this is fictitious because in 1983 there was one hot day in Northern Ireland, which proves all the scientists wrong.
Also the calving has increased the amount of ocean ice for a while (what was once considered land ice is now sea ice), which I'm sure will be reported by some as further proof that the scientists are wrong.

What on earth are you gibbering about ?

[WTFH]

What on earth are you gibbering about ?

I'm pre-empting your "report" that the sea ice in the Arctic has increased by 12km^2.

[pjclarke]

I'm pre-empting your "report" that the sea ice in the Arctic has increased by 12km^2.

[MicrosoftBob]

I'm pre-empting your "report" that the sea ice in the Arctic has increased by 12km^2.

How would you explain that with the lack of pirates in the Artic ?

[EternalOptimist]

I'm pre-empting your "report" that the sea ice in the Arctic has increased by 12km^2.

Do you seriously believe that this is the only glacier to calve, or that sublimation is not a massive factor ?

[pjclarke]

Arctic sea ice approaching normal

It has (probably) hit bottom, 1.8 million km2 below the average minimum.

[BrilloPad]

It has (probably) hit bottom, 1.8 million km2 below the average minimum.

More science pseudo bollux. No-one has any idea what is going on.

The only things one can be sure of are death, the sun rising and so called scientists(the new priests) spouting nonsense to get attention.

This post applies to AGW acceptors and deniers.

[pjclarke]

More science pseudo bollux

Fake bollux? Is that truth?

[LondonManc]

How would you explain that with the lack of pirates in the Artic ?

They have galleons not ice-breakers. HTH

[pjclarke]

Fourth lowest minimum in the satellite era, as I predicted, hailed a 'recovery' in some quarters ...

Some more context on the fourth-lowest-on-record ice figure might also be provided by recent research showing that the arctic ice cap has staged a remarkable recovery in recent years.

writes Lewis Page at El Reg. He also points out that

There still weren't any ice-scanner satellites during the summer minimum of 1969, when the 100,000-ton supertanker Manhattan - at the time the largest merchant vessel on the US registry - transited the Northwest Passage. The M'Clure strait was blocked then, too, just as it is this year, but the Manhattan got through via a route south of Banks Island. It sounds as though ice conditions that summer may not have been too dissimilar to this year.

But, for some reason he omits to mention that, while the passage is today described as 'fully navigable' in 1969 it was only traversible using the Manhattan - the biggest icebreaker in the world, and she was accompanied by 4 other super-ice-breakers, which one might have thought was relevant, in an article on sea-ice. Gotta love the Reg!