An update that might become a semi-regular series looking at how Greenland's Ice is doing and how Tony Heller's deplorable climate science blog is reporting it. See previous post for more details.
On the 5th of May Heller had another post on Greenland, Greenland Meltdown Update, which, apart from calling a large number of scientists fake
, uses the same graph from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) he'd previously claimed had been fraudulently changed to fit the theory.
Now he seems to be happy with it and claims it shows record levels of ice gain since September last year.
The actual surface of Greenland has gained a record 700 billion tons of ice this winter, with two days gaining more than 10 billion tons in 24 hours.
These figures would appear to be almost correct from the graph, though as I said before you cannot tell if there is an actual record just by looking at the graph. The current ice balance is just over the grey area, but that does not show if it is a record.
The problem for Heller is that this does not tell you how much ice is actually melting, the big gains are going to be due to heavy snow falls, especially in October. What will be interesting to see is if Heller mentions another graph on the DMI page showing the percentage of melting.
Melting has only started in the last couple of days, but is currently very high, around 10% of Greenland shows some melting - or as Heller might put it, blowing away all records
I've no idea if this high level of melt signifies anything - I expect not as it's only a couple of days, but it's probably more relevant than Heller's own personal observations. He concludes his post:
I fly over Greenland regularly. The ice sheet looks almost exactly the same as it did 20 years ago. The claims of Greenland melting are 97% nonsense, just like everything else the press and government climate scientists say.
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