Movement Of Key Part Of Greenland Ice Sheet Slowing

Movement Of Key Part Of Greenland Ice Sheet Slowing
http://www.reportingclimatescience.c...t-slowing.html

From NASA

In the face of decades of increasing temperatures and surface
melting, the movement of the southwest portion of the Greenland Ice
Sheet that terminates on land has been slowing down, according to a
new study being published by the journal Nature on Oct. 29.

Researchers derived their results by tracking ice sheet movement
through Landsat satellite images taken from 1985 to 2014 across a
roughly 3,088-square-mile (8000-square-kilometer) region in southwest
Greenland. They found that, between 2007 and 2014, ice movement
slowed in 84 percent of the study area, during a period of high
surface melt, compared to the years between 1985 and 1994. The
average slowdown was 12 percent, or 32.8 feet (10 meters) per year.

The finding is contrary to the widely held view that a greater amount
of surface melting will result in faster-moving ice sheets, as the
movement of both ocean- and land-terminating ice sheets is caused in
part by surface mel****er, which makes its way to the bedrock through
openings in the ice and acts as a lubricant. The amount of mel****er
draining from the ice sheet in four out of the five years between
2007 and 2012 has been the most substantial of the last 50 years.




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On Friday, 30 October 2015 18:07:42 UTC-4, Sam Wormley wrote:
Movement Of Key Part Of Greenland Ice Sheet Slowing
http://www.reportingclimatescience.c...t-slowing.html

From NASA

In the face of decades of increasing temperatures and surface
melting, the movement of the southwest portion of the Greenland Ice
Sheet that terminates on land has been slowing down, according to a
new study being published by the journal Nature on Oct. 29.

Researchers derived their results by tracking ice sheet movement
through Landsat satellite images taken from 1985 to 2014 across a
roughly 3,088-square-mile (8000-square-kilometer) region in southwest
Greenland. They found that, between 2007 and 2014, ice movement
slowed in 84 percent of the study area, during a period of high
surface melt, compared to the years between 1985 and 1994. The
average slowdown was 12 percent, or 32.8 feet (10 meters) per year.

The finding is contrary to the widely held view that a greater amount
of surface melting will result in faster-moving ice sheets, as the
movement of both ocean- and land-terminating ice sheets is caused in
part by surface mel****er, which makes its way to the bedrock through
openings in the ice and acts as a lubricant. The amount of mel****er
draining from the ice sheet in four out of the five years between
2007 and 2012 has been the most substantial of the last 50 years.



Another enviroKOOK theory shot to pieces.

On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:57:09 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote:

Another enviroKOOK theory shot to pieces.

Not at all. This just suggests that this particular ice sheet may not
be lubricated by surface melt.

On Friday, October 30, 2015 at 10:07:42 PM UTC, Sam Wormley wrote:


sci.physics is an unmoderated newsgroup dedicated
to the discussion of physics, news from the physics
community, and physics-related social issues.

You really mean the empiricist community, a community that plundered astronomy to create an idea that experimental sciences scale up to planetary dynamics using the idea that the fall of an apple is equivalent to the motion of the Earth and the moon -

"Rule III. The qualities of bodies, which admit neither [intensification] nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever." Newton

The idea that a greenhouse scales up to a planet is one such use of this awful overreaching notion allied with a chronic symptom that humans have control of the planet's temperature by doing or not doing something.

If I ask you Sam what causes the Sun to appear at dawn and the stars to appear after twilight as a single rotational cycle you can't answer that most fundamental astronomical question as your physics community has forced itself to believe a 'solar vs sidereal' fiction which tries to split the appearance of the Sun and the other stars apart using separate rotations of the Earth.

Want to discuss the Arctic region then you have to discuss the polar day/night cycle and its rotational cause as a function of the orbital motion of the Earth