African heat moved north
to Europe, and we heard
all about the heat.
Five EU countries
claimed record heat.
I investigated France's claim,
which I believe is questionable.
I provided pictures of
old newspaper articles,
with two examples
of French temperatures
considerably higher than
the claimed 2019 record:
Then the hot air moved north
to Greenland and record
melting claims began:
2019 ice melt may be
more extreme than
melting in July 2012,
when 98%
of the ice sheet
experienced some
surface melting.
The melting of Greenland’s
ice sheet is the biggest
contributor to sea level
rise.
The Danish Meteorological Institute
said, according to a computer model
simulation, the Greenland melt in July
was “highest this year by some distance.”
Meanwhile,
(1)
The media makes
no mention of the fact
that the ice sheet grew
substantially last year,
and also the year before,
and
(2)
Maximum temperatures
at three important
Greenland weather stations
are not unusual in 2019,
nor is there any obvious
long term warming trend:
The 2011 / 2012 ice sheet
surface mass balance
was unusual.
The ice mass remained
close to the 1981 to 2010
average through the end
of May 2012.
Then there was rapid melting.
The 2018 / 2019 ice sheet
mass was below the
1981 to 2010 average
at the end of May 2019.
Then there was rapid melting,
but the estimated ice mass
remained above the 2012 level:
The Greenland ice sheet
melts every summer,
especially when
the sun shines.
So unusually warm,
and sunny days
have lots of melting.
Cherry picking some
unusually warm days,
and implying they are
a new warming trend,
is scaremongering.
Never mentioned:
The Greenland ice sheet
grows back in winter,
as the snow falls.
If there was no melting,
the ice sheet would keep
growing year after year.
Last year, Scientific American
complaining about Greenland’s
cold "lost summer":
