‘Massive melting event’ sinks billions of tons of Greenland ice amid heat wave

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/massive-melting-event-sinks-billions-of-tons-of-ice-amid-heat-wave/993907/

by vegetablepotpie • 5 years ago

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rattray• 5 years ago

the liquid released could cover the entire state of Florida with 2 inches of water

Heat wave hit 74F

hvxflljjjjj2• 5 years ago

No, it said "70F above normal" in the article

mikem170• 5 years ago

The article also said:

hitting a high of 74 degrees Fahrenheit on July 29 at the Nerleit Inaat Airport

missedthecue4• 5 years ago

Or cover half of Florida in 4 inches of water!

bradenb• 5 years ago

This 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• 5 years ago

Hmm...I first noticed the effects in 1976.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_1976_(Europe)

LargoLasskhyfv• 5 years ago

Hm. 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! :-)

_spduchamp• 5 years ago

Here 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.

missedthecue4• 5 years ago

A 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.

Nejoti2• 5 years ago

You 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?

mint22• 5 years ago

“Wild fire numbers are down massively in the US”?!?!?!

Nine of the top ten largest California fires in the last 100 years, are within the past ten years. What sort of wild fire numbers do you mean?

smackeyacky2• 5 years ago

I am going to assume you are uninformed rather than deliberately speading disinformation, but there isn't a single grain of truth in your comment. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51742646

In Australia we now regularly deal with considerably increased risk and incidence of bushfires compared to even 50 years ago, all of it due to human activities relating to climate change.

sp332• 5 years ago

Here's some perspective on the amount of power needed to melt some snow quickly. https://what-if.xkcd.com/130/

hvxflljjjjj2• 5 years ago

AccuWeather 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• 5 years ago

Is it not more worrying that it has happened twice in three years?

bamboozled• 5 years ago

No, it’s just bad.

sollewitt• 5 years ago

Woosh

durbleflorp• 5 years ago

This 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

svrn2• 5 years ago

I've heard this exact story for over 30 years. We're supposed to be entirely underwater by now on the east coast. In the 70s everyone knew that overpopulation and starvation was right around the corner, there were models then too.

The end has been nigh for all of human history but it seems like the world keeps turning.

If a quarter of a degree celsius over 100 years or whatever is 'utterly fucked', I think we'll make it. Take a deep breath.

Nejoti2• 5 years ago

It is still melting and no it's not good when we had something similar two years ago

The article sounds like that in the next 80 years it has an effect which adds to all the other things happening.

Like the weakening of the gulf stream.

Why would you read an article like this and come to the conclusion that climate change is a narrative?

It's a scientific fact and the most crazy shit about is that we are increasing our knowledge about it every day and still don't know enough IF it will become really really bad really quick.

What is so wrong or bad for pointing our society to have much much more sustainable supply chains? Solar power and better isolated buildings?

Why do we try to keep a status quo which is not even that good?

All those cars create toxic fumes. Don't you think it would be 21 century smart to not pollute our own environment?

IF there is a cause we all humans should unite and work for having a much better future for everyone should be it.

the-dude2• 5 years ago

So 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• 5 years ago

Would you mind sharing a link to the plot?

tpmx• 5 years ago

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7cdhgDXIAIkNHm?format=jpg&name=...

afterburner2• 5 years ago

The other guy only linked one of the images.

https://twitter.com/PolarPortal/status/1420636674309165058

Retric• 5 years ago

But maybe that is not that interesting.

That’s common, you gain ice from storms which are fairly random. This is why the most days are below the average accumulation from historic data but the line is full of spikes.

Melting on the other hand tends to be much more steady.

revscat• 5 years ago

The 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• 5 years 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• 5 years ago

It should go without saying that if you wait for such an event to happen, then you're already too late.

shadykiller• 5 years ago

Greenland will soon be green

thunkshift1• 5 years ago

Greenland will be Brownland

‘Massive melting event’ sinks billions of tons of Greenland ice amid heat wave

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