Guest contribution by Larry Hamlin
The Orange County Register published an article on Sunday, August 8th, 2021 dealing with the problem of glacial melt, particularly in relation to the situation in Greenland, and attempted to link this information to the “Code Red for Mankind”, which is hailed with the register in the latest UN IPCC AR6 climate report, the article shown below.
The article provides a general discussion of various problems with Greenlandic glacial ice, including faster glacial currents, decrease in sidewall friction, and increased melting, as noted below.
The article concluded by stating that scientists said that if all of the Greenland ice were to melt, sea levels would rise 6m, and then mentioned different ways that glacial flow is measured, as shown below.
What was utterly neglected in the article was clearly relevant information that actually discusses the degree of Greenland ice melt over the past few decades and, more importantly, information about the magnitude of the Greenlandic temperature changes that have occurred over the past thousands of years that natural climate change has had a dramatic impact on the rise in temperatures in Greenland in the past without a man-made CO2 emissions hype from the UN IPCC “Code Red” with paleoclimatic data on Greenland in the past, the temperatures in the past 4,000 years being significant has increased, see below.
The settlement of Vikings in Greenland over a thousand years ago is also well documented, but not addressed in the register article.
“The Northmen arrived in Greenland 1,000 years ago and are very well established,” said Schweger, describing the Viking farms and settlements that populated the southeast and southwest coast of Greenland for almost 400 years. “
The Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) provides detailed data on the ice mass balance of the Greenland glacier from at least 1986 to 2020, spanning approximately 35 years of actually measured data, and this information is readily available in its reports, such as the report on the results of the Year 2020 specified.
This report summarizes the results of the Greenland ice melt for 2020 as shown below.
The report also includes the results of the Greenland ice mass balance for the past 35 years, as shown in the report graph below.
The average loss of Greenland ice mass over the period 1986 to 2020 determined by the DMI is about 133 billion tons per year, which is about 0.005% of the total ice mass of Greenland, which means that at this rate of loss Greenland will lose about 1% of its total amount of ice mass within about 200 years ago, resulting in an elevated sea level of about 2.4 inches.
The 2020 ice mass balance loss was exceeded by 14 previous years, with the largest measured ice mass balance loss in 2012 being 2.7 times greater than that of 2020.
The register article is highly misleading and tries in a very clumsy way to establish a connection between the recent ice mass loss in Greenland and the climate alarmist report hyped by the UN IPCC AR6 “code red”.
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