The Greenland melt season has ended, with the surface mass balance showing a gain of 160 billion tons since September 1, 2018.

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Over the past three years, Greenland’s surface has gained 1.2 trillion tons of new ice.

2017      2018      2019

Experts in the press corps have generously interpreted the data for us, and determined that there is a climate emergency and it is President Trump’s fault.

Their highly researched journalism was based on a single incorrect temperature reading in the center of the Greenland ice sheet.

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August 24, 2019 at 07:07AM