{"id":47640,"date":"2019-08-06T07:44:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T12:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47640"},"modified":"2019-08-06T07:45:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T12:45:29","slug":"pounding-heat-clobbers-greenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47640","title":{"rendered":"Pounding Heat Clobbers Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pounding Heat Clobbers Greenland<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Photograph Source: Ralf Roletschek \u2013 GFDL 1.2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greenland is one of the biggest targets for global warming, in part, because it\u2019s so big it\u2019s hard to miss. And sure enough, only recently crazy halting weather with inordinate hot temperature hit Greenland bull\u2019s-eye, dead-on with one helluva meltdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s bad news for pretty much everybody on the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the hottest days, the melt-off could fill 3 billion Olympic-sized pools end-to-end, extending from California to Maine, back and forth, 17,000 times. Eureka! That\u2019s only one day. It\u2019s staggering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s going on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The easy answer: Greenland is melting because global warming is acting up, a lot. But, it\u2019s more complicated. Part of the meltdown includes a 4-mile-wide iceberg that broke off the Helheim Glacier July 11th<\/sup>. That\u2019s equivalent to a small town floating\/melting along the southeastern coastline of Greenland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that regard, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists: \u201cClimate Hot Map, Helheim Glacier \u2013 The glacier was stable from the 1950s to 2000.\u201d Thereafter, rapidly rising temps jarred it loose from its stable moorings, losing five miles of ice in its first five years of the 21st<\/sup>century. Oops! So much for 50 years of stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In point of fact, Greenland\u2019s glaciers, in toto, have doubled their rate of retreat this century, which is more than any historical data. That\u2019s not only ominous, it\u2019s indicative of the enormous power behind anthropogenic turbo-charged climate change. It\u2019s happening fast and faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But still, it\u2019s not unusual for parts of Greenland to melt every summer when the planet tilts its northern face towards the sun. Then, year-by-year with regularity about 10% of the ice sheet hits a melting point. However, this year the first big heat wave in June hit 45% of the ice sheet with melting points as air temps hovered 10\u00b0C to 15\u00b0C above normal, which is beach weather for Greenland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pounding Heat Clobbers Greenland Photograph Source: Ralf Roletschek \u2013 GFDL 1.2 Greenland is one of the biggest targets for global warming, in part, because it\u2019s so big it\u2019s hard to miss. And sure enough, only recently crazy halting weather with inordinate hot temperature hit Greenland bull\u2019s-eye, dead-on with one helluva meltdown. That\u2019s bad news for pretty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5493,4437,2196,1144,26457,12542,10793],"class_list":["post-47640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-counterpunch","tag-glacial-melt","tag-greenland","tag-heat","tag-helheim-glacier","tag-robert-hunziker","tag-union-of-concerned-scientists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47641,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47640\/revisions\/47641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}