Polar ice caps
have been melting
since we came out
of the last glacial period,
about 18,000 to 20,000
year ago.
Meltwater has been
included in the
sea level rise data
for centuries.
We’re not seeing
any acceleration in
the rate of sea-level rise
in the longest and best
tide gauge records
we have.
Greenland
and Antarctica
ice volumes
are roughly
thirty million
cubic kilometres
in Antarctica
and a tenth of that,
three million
cubic kilometres,
in Greenland.
One cubic
kilometre
is about
0.95 gigatonnes
of ice.
The net change
over 25 years is
about five-thousandths
of one percent (0.005%)
of the total Greenland
ice mass per year.
The chart below
makes it appear that
Greenland has a lot
of melting, but it is
very deceptive
by not showing
the total ice mass
of Greenland,
which is far larger
than the mass of
ice that has melted:
The chart below
makes it appear that
Greenland has a lot
of melting, but it is
very deceptive
by not showing
the total ice mass
of Greenland,
which is far larger
than the mass of
ice that has melted:
Dishonest charts
have been used by
climate alarmists
for their usual false
CO2 scaremongering.
Climate is complicated.
Honest charts are not.
This Honest
Global Warming
Chart Blog
does not tolerate
dishonest charts
of ice loss.
The chart below
is an
honest method
honest method
of showing
the total ice mass
of Antarctica,
relative to the
total ice mass:
relative to the
total ice mass: