THE 2010 PREDICTION:
The UK Guardian newspaper
warned 10 years ago
that Greenland would pass
a tipping point by now,
with the glaciers there
disappearing by the
end of the century.
Richard Alley, a geosciences
professor at Pennsylvania
State University, had said:
"Sometime in the next decade
we may pass that tipping point
which would put us warmer
than temperatures that Greenland
can survive,"
Alley also said, in a
briefing to Congress, that
"a rise in the range of 2C to 7C
would mean the obliteration
of Greenland’s ice sheet."
The fall-out would be
a global sea level rise
of 23ft (7 meters).
Low-lying cities,
such as New Orleans,
would be under water.
"What is going on
in the Arctic now
is the biggest
and fastest thing
that nature
has ever done,"
he said.
Clueless Mr. Alley
must have forgotten
that Canada, Chicago
and Detroit were under
thick ice glaciers
20,000 years ago
-- which all melted
by 10,000 years ago,
contributing to
a sea level rise
of about 400 feet
... with no help
from man made
carbon dioxide.
Alley had been
addressing a
U.S. House of
Representatives
committee on
energy independence
and global warming
in 2010, during the
Obama era.
His warning was underlined
by a recent break-up of one of
Greenland’s largest glaciers
-- sending a 100 square mile
chunk of ice drifting
into the North Strait
between Greenland
and Canada.
That calving ice chunk.
breaking off from the
Petermann Glacier,
had been the largest
known chunk in 50 years,
although there had been
many smaller glacier
"calvings".
Glaciers are
"rivers of ice"
that move slowly
toward the ocean,
until ice chunks
break off the edges
and fall into the ocean
-- that movement
has nothing to do
with global warming.
SO WHAT
REALLY HAPPENED ?
The UK Guardian article
was written in 2010,
which was the warmest
year in the relatively
short temperature record
for Greenland, with all the
measurements made
DURING a warming trend.
Since then, Greenland’s
temperatures returned to
"normal", and are no higher
than they were in the 1930s.
2010 was not
the start of
a new trend.
It was just an
unusually
warm year.
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The Danish Meteorology
Institute ( DMI ) reports that
Greenland’s major glaciers
stopped retreating
seven years ago:
In 2019 it was found that
26 of the 47 largest-glaciers
in Greenland were stable
or gaining ice !
Earlier this month
unprecedented amounts
of ice were added to the
Greenland ice sheet
as noted on Electroverse:
4Gt one week and then
5Gt a week later.
The Petermann Glacier
(see photo below)
is still roughly in the
same position
as in 1980 !
On the satellite image below,
the positions of the glacier
at the end of the melting
season in September
( aka “terminus” )
are shown for the year 2000
( marked with a pink line )
and the year 1980.
( marked with a blue line ).
ANALYZING THE 2010
UK GUARDIAN CLAIM:
* The headline was very
alarmist and misleading .
* The ‘scientist’ gave
multiple timeline options.
* Projections were for
so far into the future,
that they couldn't be falsified
for 50 to 100 years !
* 20 feet of sea level rise
is impossible within
100 years, or even
in 1,000 years
* Almost no facts, data or
measurable evidence,
just assertions (wild
guesses of the future
climate ).
That's "textbook"
leftist climate change
scaremongering !
During World War II,
the US Air Force was
forced to abandon
some aircraft on the
Greenland ice, after
they ran short of fuel.
A few years ago,
after years of trying,
a twin engined fighter
was discovered
hundreds of feet down,
buried in the ice.
Yet people claim
this ice is melting ?
Few people
have any idea
of basic physics,
or how huge
(area x height)
the Greenland
ice sheet is,
and how much
energy it would take
to melt even 1% of it.
Most of the ice is at
higher altitudes, where
it never gets much
above freezing.
The scaremongers
can’t even get the
summer sea ice
to disappear, despite
claiming it’s been
‘rapidly melting’
for four decades.
Government bureaucrat
"climate scientists"
are a laughing stock !
Since the 1980s,
they have been
brought up on stage,
like climate puppets,
to promote a scary
climate narrative,
and "educate"
the policy makers
with fake tales
of our imminent
demise !
How much longer
are ‘experts’
going to be paid
large sums
of money
by governments
( taxpayers ),
for dishonesty,
scaremongering and
misinformation ?
Nobody can
do anything
to prevent
climate
change.
Just keep
talking
about it.
If you're old,
you can complain
about the weather
every day !
We have already
been through
several alleged
climate change
"tipping points"
since the 1970s.
Leftists never
let the truth
stand in the way
of a false climate
change scare !
And don't worry
about real climate
science:
High school dropout
St. Greta Thunberg,
and her disciple AOC,
both famous climate
science "perfessers",
have determined
that the world will die
from climate change
on June 9, 2030 !
Mark that date
on your calendar.