NASA: Strange and sudden massive melt in Greenland
The abnormally warm weather is causing meltdowns even in Greenland’s highest and coldest places
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/25/nasa_strange_and_sudden_massive_melt_in_greenland/
I read this yesterday but wasn’t motivated to post at the time. To me this is just a natural variation in weather and climate and essentially meaningless in the global scale. Since I am a global warming skeptic (well, I _am_ skeptical that we need to destroy our society in order to ‘save’ it from human influenced global warming) naturally I more or less ignored the hysterical elements of the article and was just interested in the science.
Today I find this rather interesting, amazingly non-hysterical article on Fox:
Skeptics put the freeze on NASA ‘hot air’ about Greenland ice
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/26/skeptics-put-freeze-on-nasa-hot-air-about-greenland-ice/
The title is the most hysterical part of the article; it seems well written to me (I guess, just like the WSJ, occasionally, likely by accident, something gets written and published that isn’t horribly slanted or outright lies). It was this second article that motivated me to post. Just like I got interested when I saw the epigenetic adaptation of fish to higher temps.
