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Mar 30^th, 2024 at 10:53am

'The most recent update from Greenland’s ice found that 221bn tonnes of ice had been lost every year since 2003. The new study adds another 43bn tonnes a year, making the total loss about 30m tonnes an hour on average.'
This is 8,000 tonnes /second all the time. It's around the av flow of the Mississippi river. So the same rate of heating must extend across the Arctic as in Antarctica with record low ice. Many Mississippis. So far, the water is cool not boiling.

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Re: hot ice
Reply #1 - Mar 30^th, 2024 at 10:57am

chimera wrote on Mar 30^th, 2024 at 10:53am:

'The most recent update from Greenland’s ice found that 221bn tonnes of ice had been lost every year since 2003. The new study adds another 43bn tonnes a year, making the total loss about 30m tonnes an hour on average.'
This is 8,000 tonnes /second all the time. It's around the av flow of the Mississippi river. So the same rate of heating must extend across the Arctic as in Antarctica with record low ice. Many Mississippis. So far, the water is cool not boiling.

The sky is falling!!!!!!!!

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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 15426 Armidale Gender:	Re: hot ice Reply #2 - Mar 30^th, 2024 at 11:20am True, the highest point in Greenland is 3,700m. and melt water drops down from there.
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25473 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: hot ice Reply #3 - Mar 30^th, 2024 at 12:11pm It is not like the ice melt is not going to freeze again by September onwards that year. By the time the ice melt gets to the sea, the fresh water will stick to the coast line (some getting caught up in the ocean currents) until the late Autumn comes around and freezes the water again. You then have expanded ice sheets.
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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 15426 Armidale Gender:	Re: hot ice Reply #4 - Mar 30^th, 2024 at 12:23pm The trend is down, staying down. https://psc.apl.uw.edu/research/projects/arctic-sea-ice-volume-anomaly/ click on graph to enlarge
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