Greenland’s melt season officially began on Monday—two months earlier than normal.
Credit: Danish Meteorological Institute
On Monday, Greenland began to melt. Parts of Greenland melt every year and the whole thing freezes again each winter, but lately, thanks to global warming, the melting has come earlier and then peaked in the summer at higher levels than usual.
Even in light of these trends, Monday’s melt was unlike anything the scientists studying Greenland have ever seen—it was so different, in fact, that they thought the data was wrong.
“We had to check that our models were still working properly,” Peter Langen, a climate scientist at the Danish Meteorological Institute, told Polar Portal, a Danish government website which chronicles monitoring of the ice sheet. Sure enough, thermometers on and around the ice showed temperatures as high as 64 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday—more than 35 degrees warmer than normal for this time […]
Check flight radar 24. Every morning hundreds of airline flights leave Europe for the USA. Every night flights leave the USA for Europe. These planes burn approx. 3000 gallons an our of jet fuel. There exhaust temperature depending on the aircraft is approximately 2500 degrees. There cruising at approximately 30,000 feet, creating a layer of warm air being carried north by the prevailing winds north, over Greenland an Iceland. What do you think is going to happen !