OMG… Greenland’s ice sheets are melting fast

[pjclarke]

Greenland melt season over

Steve Goddard could not lie straight in bed. Quoting him is a fast track to zero credibility. From the link on his page:

Over the year, it snows more than it melts, but calving of icebergs also adds to the total mass budget of the ice sheet. Satellite observations over the last decade show that the ice sheet is not in balance. The calving loss is greater than the gain from surface mass balance, and Greenland is losing mass at about 200 Gt/yr

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Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Budget: DMI

[BlasterBates]

Arctic sea ice approaching normal

The melt season has essentially stopped, with very cold air across the Beaufort Sea

[pjclarke]

Arctic sea ice approaching normal

Enough with the comedy one-liners.

Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

[EternalOptimist]

things will get interesting a week from now
when this North West passage cruise is due to set sail

will they make it through ?

if they make it, the responses will be

EO -I am gobsmacked and will go back and have a rethink
PJ -Obviously they made it, due to CAGW

If they don't make it, the responses will be

EO - As we have been saying, arctic ice is up
PJ -Obviously they couldn't make it, due to CAGW

[WTFH]

That was no way to talk to a lady

She's just retaining water... Frozen water.

[MicrosoftBob]

Enough with the comedy one-liners.

Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

It's snowjoking matter

[pjclarke]

things will get interesting a week from now
when this North West passage cruise is due to set sail

will they make it through ?

if they make it, the responses will be

EO -I am gobsmacked and will go back and have a rethink
PJ -Obviously they made it, due to CAGW

If they don't make it, the responses will be

EO - As we have been saying, arctic ice is up
PJ -Obviously they couldn't make it, due to CAGW

Meh. Weather. I decline your attempt to frame the question. Alternatively one could say that one luxury cruise more or less doesn't tell you very much; obviously they will have consulted meteorologists and taken out cancellation insurance against the cost of turning back and the insurance company likewise when setting the premium, but as they are charging up to 30K / passenger, I guess they have pretty deep pockets.

If you want to know what the reinsurance business in general think about the risks to their business from climate change …


https://www.munichre.com/en/group/fo...nge/index.html

[pjclarke]

PS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Bremen

[pjclarke]

Arctic sea ice approaching normal

Dropping like the Shanghai Composite.

[WTFH]

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.