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Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Greenland ice mass loss was below average in 2020 -- tiny compared with TOTAL Greenland ice mass

 Source of quotes:
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/01/18/greenland-ice-mass-loss-below-average-in-2020/#more-48581


"The annual average mass loss since 2002 is 264 Gt, but this is a microscopic amount in comparison with the total ice cap mass, which weighs 2.6 million Gt."

The chart of total Greenland total ice mass below is from 2019, but it's an honest chart that tells the story well:

 

" ... the sea level rise in the last decades resulting from the melt is only around 10mm.

 

... We know Greenland is now warmer than in the 19th Century, which ice cores prove was the coldest era there since the end of the Ice Age.


We know that temperatures in Greenland now are no higher than the 1920s to 1950s.

 

... we also know that glaciers there grew massively between the Middle Ages and the Little Ice Age.
 

There is no evidence whatsoever that melting will suddenly start to run away. 

 

Indeed everything points to it being a natural event, which may well reverse or slow down when the Atlantic Multidecadal (ocean) Oscillation switches to cold phase and temperatures in Greenland fall sharply, just as they did between the 1960s and 90s."