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‘Massive melting event’ sinks billions of tons of Greenland ice amid heat wave
- forcry 5y agoPlease give earth some fucking privacy!
- rattray 5y ago> the liquid released could cover the entire state of Florida with 2 inches of water Heat wave hit 74F
- hvxflljjjjj 5y agoNo, it said "70F above normal" in the article
- mikem170 5y agoThe article also said: > hitting a high of 74 degrees Fahrenheit on July 29 at the Nerleit Inaat Airport
- missedthecue 5y agoOr cover half of Florida in 4 inches of water!
- bradenb 5y agoThis is pretty alarming. To me, climate change has always been real but I always assumed the effects were going to be much further in my future. Clearly I was wrong. In just the last few years there seems to have been a massive acceleration in the number of climate change-related events. How long will it take our political machines to finally be OK with addressing these problems? It has already taken too long, so I don't have high hopes. I would think an article like this would scare the hell out of coastal states like Florida. This time the ice melt remained largely inland, but one of these days we'll run out of luck.
- dboreham 5y agoHmm...I first noticed the effects in 1976. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_1976_(Europe) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_1976_(Europe)
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoHm. Now that you mention it I remember molten asphalt between the Rhine and Cologne Cathedral while being there on a trip with my mother while I was very young. That even melted the soles of shoes, not only mine, but most people there. It all stank like a construction site where they paved the streets. But it wasn't. Luckily one could flee into the many shops and restaurants near there, and buy new shoes! :-)
- bamboozled 5y ago“Please somebody do something”
- _spduchamp 5y agoHere in Canada, the climate crisis gets used as a political tool to tell stories that makes the other political parties look bad. This leads to endless policy lurch, and climate stalling. Elections can't fix the problem because we are stuck with first-past-the-post elections and all the networks of patronage like it that way. This is why I advocate for electoral reform, specifically a Citizens'Assembly on Electoral Reform. It's how we debug the system.
- missedthecue 5y agoA massive increase in events? Or a massive increase in the reporting of events? Wildfires for instance have dominated headlines for the past few years, but over the last 50-100 years, wildfire numbers are down massively in the US and Australia.
- Nejoti 5y agoYou should not take the numbers which fit your view but look at all numbers. The type of crazy events are getting more, the extremes also. There are plenty of statistics telling us that co2 is going up, glacier ice down, temperatures up etc. What's happening right now in Italy, Greece and turkey is extreme. The flood in Germany was extreme. 'i have never seen something like this in my whole life' was what you heard from plenty of people. Canada's wildfire this year is already at 3 million, the drought in California is still ongoing and in new Zealand they have also issues with power generation through water. You really should follow the science of it more closely if you still argue with numbers which fit your view. Not sure though what your goal is. Are you worried that we spend too much resources on renewable and sustainable solutions globally?
- sp332 5y agoHere's some perspective on the amount of power needed to melt some snow quickly. https://what-if.xkcd.com/130/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/130/
- hvxflljjjjj 5y agoAccuWeather runs the most hysterical headlines constantly and this article is no different. The headline makes it sound like the end is nigh, the article language is dramatic, but a similar event happened two years ago These kinds of articles are what make me question the climate change narrative the most. There's so much fear to sell, and the merchants are hungry.
- amadsen 5y agoIs it not more worrying that it has happened twice in three years?
- bamboozled 5y agoNo, it’s just bad.
- sollewitt 5y agoWoosh
- durbleflorp 5y agoThis is a bad take. All headlines are sensationalized for clicks, subject doesn't really matter. If you ignore the headlines and do your own research on climate change, it's pretty nearly impossible in my opinion to come to the conclusion that we're not utterly fucked. If anything news stories tend to focus only on individual events rather than larger scale patterns and potential feedback loops, so they often understate the actual scale of the problem. I actually think there's been a conscious effort by some entities writing about climate change to focus on the short term immediate stuff because they realize that talking about the big picture would make people completely apathetic and hopeless. I was studying marine biology last year and holy shit, the low end predicted effects and feedback loops -- even only looking at the ocean -- are going to be utterly catastrophic. The planet is going to be unrecognizable for future generations -- enjoy the last bit of stability while it lasts. Ultimately humans were very 'lucky' to evolve and exist in a period of extreme abundance and stability on Earth. We've totally squandered that with our ignorance, hubris, and drive for short term profit and now we get to see the flip side
- the-dude 5y agoSo one has to go to Twitter to see an actual graph. Which has a massive spike in ice gain for the season 2020-2021 too. But maybe that is not that interesting.
- vegetablepotpie 5y agoWould you mind sharing a link to the plot?
- tpmx 5y agohttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7cdhgDXIAIkNHm?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7cdhgDXIAIkNHm?format=jpg&name=...
- quenix 5y agoHm, interesting. This seems to indicate that we gained ice for the entirety of September — June without a single major melting episode.
- dandelany 5y agoThat is the case every year, as indicated by the grey mean in the background of the chart. Point is, we gained ice at a lower-than-average rate during “gains season” and now we’re losing ice at a greater-than-average rate during “melt season”.
- the-dude 5y ago> Point is, we gained ice at a lower-than-average rate during “gains season” and now we’re losing ice at a greater-than-average rate during “melt season”. The article does not claim any of this.
- afterburner 5y agoThere's two images https://twitter.com/PolarPortal/status/1420636674309165058 https://twitter.com/PolarPortal/status/1420636674309165058
- revscat 5y agoThe models were wrong. Everything is much worse. Humanity sees its doom and responds with angry, self-righteous narcissism, denial, and sarcasm. Chemistry doesn’t care about liberty.
- TheSpiceIsLife 5y ago> So much so that the liquid released could cover the entire state of Florida with 2 inches of water. Let’s call it 50mm. From Wikipedia > Spanning over 65,750 square miles, Florida ranks 22nd in size among the 50 states That’s 170,291 square kilometres. Seawater covers approximately 361,000,000 km2 I’m no rocker surgeon so correct me if my calculations are wrong. 0.023586011080332mm sea level rise from this event? We should do something about AGW, but that isn’t the number that’ll motivate anyone who needs motivating.
- mrtesthah 5y agoIt should go without saying that if you wait for such an event to happen, then you're already too late.
- shadykiller 5y agoGreenland will soon be green
- thunkshift1 5y agoGreenland will be Brownland