"The media and activists, among them a number of “Climate scientists”, have been declaring that Greenland ice melt has been accelerating.
... All the recent talk about accelerating Greenland ice loss over the past years is false.
... a plot of Greenland’s surface mass balance (SMB) shows that snow accumulation has occurred faster than snow and ice have melted over the past 35 years.
...Though the annual SMB values declined from 1985 to 2012, the trend has rebounded since.
Another factor that plays a role in Greenland’s total ice mass is the amount of ice at the coast that breaks off into the ocean.
This factor ultimately decides whether Greenland’s total ice mass is growing or shrinking.
Currently at the coasts Greenland is losing close to 500 gigatons annually.
... consider both the SMB and the Discharge together ... Here we see that Greenland’s total mass balance TMB is negative, meaning a net ice loss in total, but has been decelerating since 2012.
... Greenland is not melting faster and faster ... Ice lost has been slowing down substantially for about a decade now.
... the opposite of what the media and alarmists are claiming is in fact happening in Greenland."
