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Huge Pool of Ice-Free Water Discovered Under Greenland Ice
The BBC reports that researchers have discovered a huge pool of meltwater beneath Greenland's ice sheet, trapped "in the air space between particles of ice, similar to the way that fruit juice stays liquid in a slush drink."
From the article, based on research published in Nature Geoscience (abstract): "The scientists say the water is prevented from freezing by the large amounts of snow that fall on the surface of the ice sheet late in the summer. This insulates the water from the air temperatures which are below freezing, allowing the water to persist as liquid all year long. Other researchers believe this discovery may help explain disparities between projections of mass loss by climate models and observations from satellites."
We're not very good at looking through solid substances yet. Not only don't we know what's under the Greenland ice, we don't even know what's under many of our cities. For example, construction of the Thessaloniki metro recently discovered an entire Roman city center buried beneath the modern-day city center. In limited cases you can find some of this kind of stuff with ground-penetrating radar, but in general mapping out stuff that's covered by solid dirt/ice/etc. is not easy, even in the 21st century.
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Just another example of Man thinking he has everything figured out only to be made a fool of by nature.
Except Man doesn't think that he has everything figured out. This is even mentioned in the summary:
Other researchers believe this discovery may help explain disparities between projections of mass loss by climate models and observations from satellites.
Researchers knew that the models did not match what was happening and didn't know why. In fact, you can tell that they don't think that they know it all by seeing how they state their margins of error (which takes into account that there might be things that they don't know). Hell, even when they try to sound certain they can't quite bring themselves to stating things in terms of absolutes (hence the IPCC report saying that it was 95% certain that climate change was man made).
And think about it, if scientists came out and said that they had discovered everything that there was to know then they would be putting themselves out of a job.