Joseph D’Aleo:
Remember a year ago when few days of July ‘warmth’ with strong blocking over Greenland had the media abuzz over some melting?
Last July a brief spell of temperatures in the mid 30s had caused some surface slush formation on top of the 1 to 1.5 mile thick Greenland ice. The NASA sensors merely color-coded the phase of the water – ice (white), mixed water and ice (rose) and none (land grey). Rose meant some surface liquid. For Greenland, business as usual, because 150 years ago, there were no satellites to record the event.
It quickly refroze in a few days even before the flurry of news stories hyping it stopped.
The July 2012 melt event was a couple of short blips above freezing.
You can see the ice at the summit was very much still in evidence.
Well, a year later, we have an interesting opposite scenario with a deep arctic low bringing snow to the arctic and Greenland in late July.
LOL…So when will This One recognize this as reason for him to write his descendents and apologize for being so easily manipulated by the AGW cultists into swallowing their ridiculous propaganda?
The accelerating Greenland ice melt has been tracked for over a decade. Last year was an exceptionally warm year, with an exceptional degree of melting. It isn’t certain whether it’s an indicator of a problem that’s developing even faster than anticipated or a anomalous spike in a gradual warming trend. It certainly isn’t evidence that there’s no global warming issue.
The unusual degree of melting during 2012 is attributed to changes in the jet stream.
Jet stream changes cause climatically exceptional Greenland Ice Sheet melt
Breaking news!: The annual encroachment of an unusual weather phenomenon called “Summer” has occurred in the Northern Hemisphere. This dangerous climate change has created temperature variances resulting in warmer weather that has resulted in some melting of ice and snow. Clearly mankind’s continued existence is to blame for the Earth’s tilt and elliptical orbit! We must all commit Harri-Kari to stop these seasonal changes that lead to climate change. Hopefully this will enable the planet’s poles to shift back, the orbit to stabilize in a completely equidistant solar orbit and perhaps one day surface temperatures may adjust into proper, optimum, normal averages.
Greg and This One are encouraged video their own act of ultimate, honorable self sacrifice and, (assuming they had a friend come down to their parent’s basement to hold the camera,) as their dying wish, request their clips be posted on YouTube and Flopping Aces, so that the rest of us can follow their example.
@Greg: #2
Your jet stream is always blowing in the same direction.
Don’t you hate it when Mother Nature doesn’t do what you want her to?
Hey Greg…
If us evil humans had NEVER used ANY fossil-fuels, since 1850, how much “cooler” would we be today?
*Cue Jeopardy music*
@Patvann: Really friggin’ close to Z E R O?
Between 0.003 and 0.005 degF.
Greggy fails.