Robert Scribbler: Did a January hurricane just set off a massive Greenland melt event in winter?
Desdemona Despair
18 January 2016 (Robert Scribbler) – This freakish Winter there’s something odd and ominous afoot.
We’ve seen unprecedented above-freezing temperatures at the North Pole coincident with record low daily sea ice extents. We’ve seen global temperatures hitting new, very extreme record highs. We’ve seen climate change related storms raging across the globe — flooding both the UK and the Central US, firing off record hurricanes during January in both the Pacific and the Atlantic — even as other regions swelter under record heat and drought.
Now, it appears that Greenland is also experiencing an unprecedented melt during wintertime. […]
Over the past few days, just such a major heat-up has been underway across a large section of Western Greenland. Warm winds flowing off the North Atlantic — driven by hurricane Alex’s merging with powerful lows south of Greenland — have roared up over the southern coastal ranges. Meanwhile, warm, tropical air has infiltrated northward over Baffin Bay. The net result is temperatures approaching 20-40 degrees Fahrenheit above average (16 to 22 C above average) over a broad region of Western Greenland.
Over the past few days, as indicated in this recent post by Jason Box, the region near Disko and Uummannaq Bays — both in Baffin Bay and along the coastal ranges — has felt the full force of this substantial warm-up. By today, a large section of the coastal offshore waters and a wedge of glacier-covered Western Greenland all experienced near or above-freezing temperatures. A very rare event for Greenland and Baffin Bay during wintertime and one that appears to have coincided with a possible large glacial melt water outflow from the Jackobshavn Glacier. [more]
Did a January Hurricane Just Set off a Massive Greenland Melt Event in Winter?
Source: http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2016/01/robert-scribbler-did-january-hurricane.html
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A “wedge” of western Greenland experienced subfreezing and above freezing air temperatures for how long? From a hurricane? Days at most.
You just said that was 20 to 40 degrees above average. So the air temperature is typically way below freezing.
So, how could ice melt? Notice your air temperatures are from satellites. Yes, the oxygen in the air radiates directly into outer space. That radiant heat is what the satellites measure. Neither water vapor nor carbon dioxide nor methane block that cooling of the atmosphere.
You forgot to mention there was a January Atlantic hurricane in 1938.
You also forgot to mention the damage from the “record” hurricane Patricia. Oh, right. There was none to speak of. And if NOAA hadn’t threatened its employees with jail, for talking, some of them might have told you why. Because the “record” part was fabricated, that’s why.
Don’t forget this: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ “(Arctic) sea ice extent is well below average in the Bering, Okhotsk, and Barents seas, partly balanced by slightly above average extent in Baffin Bay.”
“The first week of 2016 has seen very slow ice growth in the Arctic.”
“In Antarctica, December sea ice extent was slightly above average but far below the exceptionally large ice extents recorded for December 2013 and 2014.” (By “exceptionally large,” they mean, “all time record.”)
If you think it’s warm enough in western Greenland for ice sheets to melt, in January, please book a trip for yourself. And send pictures of yourself in a light jacket.