This year, the Greenland ice sheet either lost 171.8 billion tons or gained 4.8 billion tons—depending on which official surface-mass-balance model you use.
El Niño may deliver the headline heat. But the follow-up could be a long La Niña arriving just as Solar Cycle 25 descends into minimum.
Western politics remains fixated on domestic CO₂ cuts while China's vast emissions, Asia and Africa's plastic pollution, and the toxic mining practices supplying the wind and solar industries escape anything like the same political pressure.
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Part of the reason for the difference between the 2 estimates of Greenland’s surface mass balance could be how the models calculate temperature change with increase in altitude, the lapse rate. Most of the PROMICE weather stations are around the edge of the ice sheet and therefore at a fairly low altitude whereas the surface of a lot of the ice sheet is hundreds or even 1000+ metres above sea level.. The rate at which temperature decreases with height depends on the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere. In very dry air it can drop by almost 1C for every 100m of height gain, when there’s a lot of water vapour in the atmosphere there’s far less temperature decrease with altitude. If the models can’t get lapse rate correct then predicted temperatures over much of the ice sheet will be wrong and in summer will predict the wrong amount of melting
Then it got warm – live in Los Angeles – was 111 yesterday – we had about 10 days of very warm weather. One more day of this then back to normal
My N Alabama temps all low to mid-90s the next 7 days, excepting one rainy day, for mid 80s there.
Well, that’s what you get for living in the South. My Dad used to say that Missouri has the climate of a Southern state in the summer and a Northern state in the winter. We get the worst of both worlds, and climate change or not, it looks like we’re stuck with it.