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Once-Shrinking Greenland Glacier Is Now Growing, NASA Study Shows (nbcnews.com)
kenh shares a report from NBC News: A major Greenland glacier that was one of the fastest shrinking ice and snow masses on Earth is growing again, a new NASA study finds. The Jakobshavn (YA-cob-shawv-en) glacier around 2012 was retreating about 1.8 miles (3 kilometers) and thinning nearly 130 feet (almost 40 meters) annually. But it started growing again at about the same rate in the past two years, according to a study in Monday's Nature Geoscience. Study authors and outside scientists think this is temporary.
A natural cyclical cooling of North Atlantic waters likely caused the glacier to reverse course, said study lead author Ala Khazendar, a NASA glaciologist on the Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) project. Khazendar and colleagues say this coincides with a flip of the North Atlantic Oscillation -- a natural and temporary cooling and warming of parts of the ocean that is like a distant cousin to El Nino in the Pacific. The water in Disko Bay, where Jakobshavn hits the ocean, is about 3.6 degrees cooler than a few years ago, study authors said. While this is "good news" on a temporary basis, this is bad news on the long term because it tells scientists that ocean temperature is a bigger player in glacier retreats and advances than previously thought, said NASA climate scientist Josh Willis, a study co-author. Over the decades the water has been and will be warming from man-made climate change, he said, noting that about 90 percent of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases goes into the oceans.
A natural cyclical cooling of North Atlantic waters likely caused the glacier to reverse course, said study lead author Ala Khazendar, a NASA glaciologist on the Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) project. Khazendar and colleagues say this coincides with a flip of the North Atlantic Oscillation -- a natural and temporary cooling and warming of parts of the ocean that is like a distant cousin to El Nino in the Pacific. The water in Disko Bay, where Jakobshavn hits the ocean, is about 3.6 degrees cooler than a few years ago, study authors said. While this is "good news" on a temporary basis, this is bad news on the long term because it tells scientists that ocean temperature is a bigger player in glacier retreats and advances than previously thought, said NASA climate scientist Josh Willis, a study co-author. Over the decades the water has been and will be warming from man-made climate change, he said, noting that about 90 percent of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases goes into the oceans.
I takes more faith to believe in Climate Change theories than to believe in God.
Your God is a lie, agreed. Climate change is obvious, basic science you can measure. There's no comparison, you're a moron. Ironically... you will burn in Hell, liar. Kind of a twist there.
For some evidence of global warming. It's been decades now, and everything they've shown us as evidence has turned out not to be the case.
I wonder if in fifty years they'll be going on about global warming, even when it still isn't happening?
Avenatti is going to jail (along with Jussie Smollett's lawyer, his co-conspirator). Global warming is turning around. Mueller report has nothing in it. ISIS is destroyed. Dems run a bunch of clowns in the primaries. Liberal media has completely self-destructed. And so on and so forth. If things go like this, Trump is getting a Reagan-style landslide in 2020.
This is a disaster. My world falls apart. So first the Mueller report does not find sufficient evidence against Trump and now you say that even climate change is not real? What's going to be next? Mass shootings having nothing to do with gun law?
Something that seems to prove their theory?
DEFINITIVELY AGW!
But, something like a growing glacier? Which contradicts it?
"A natural cycle."
It's a fucking religion at this point.
Just like being anti-Trump.
Most people don't dispute that climate is changing.
The problem is, the models for this shit are so shoddy and inflexible.
So when people point out the problems in the models, they get labeled a "climate denier".
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
A slight increase in ocean temp leads to more water in the atmosphere, which creates more snow, which increases the albedo of the planet, which lowers temperatures.
While I agree we should continue to be less consequential, no one has been able to convince me that we need to short circuit free market solutions with global rule that will fail so surely as OPEC members cheat every single time.
Nothing evolves faster than the word of god in the minds of men who think themselves divinely inspired.