By Paul Homewood
Steve Koonin has just had this article published in the Wall Street Journal.
It’s behind a paywall, but he has sent me his original PDF:
Steve Koonin’s analysis closely correlates with the findings of a study last year by Mankoff et al, “Greenland ice sheet mass balance from 1840
through next week”
The black line is the one to track, as this is the total change in ice mass, combining surface mass balance and glacial discharge. Mankoff found that ice losses were similar to now around the 1920s to 40s:
There should be little surprise about this, because temperatures in Greenland were generally similar to now back in those decades:
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/06/12/greenland-temperatures-2021/
There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that Greenland will get significantly warmer anytime soon. Indeed the opposite appears likely.
Historically, the Greenland icecap has been smaller than now for most of the Holocene, so the current situation is not in anyway unusual.
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February 28, 2022 at 05:39AM
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