More Climate Porn

This from Richard Cronin:

More fear porn from USA Toady.

Indeed, the Arctic is warming a bit faster because the Earth is a globe and the crust is thinnest at the North Pole. The Gakkel Ridge and Laptev Rift as well as numerous other regions where heat wells up.

"It's Disintegrating" Canada's Last Intact Arctic Ice Shelf has Collapsed

Tim observes:

And of course little has been said about under ice volcanism, both in Greenland and in Antarctica. I guess an active volcanoe does nothing to melt ice?

In the Bay of Fundie 38.386 cubic miles  of seawater moves into the bay no less than four times a day. Gee, what does that do? Changes in ocean currents has a buge impact on Arctic sea ice.

And NASA says 292 gigatons of ice was lost from the Greenland icecap in 2018 - but they failed to mention that that cap is 2.6 MILLION gigatons! Like spitting in the ocean.

(Hat tip: Guy Beebe.)

Greenland has considerable undersea volcanism. So does Antarctica. I guess volcanoes don't melt ice, though, but slightly warmer air higher in the atmosphere does?

The sad thing is this fish tale will be swallowed by the average person.

There are volcanoes under both the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps. But we are supposed to ignore that and believe a warming of a degree or less in the atmosphere is causing these ice sheets to collapse? I mean, we're talking about places that rarely reach the freezing point of water. See here https://weather.com/news/climate/news/2017-10-25-arctic-sea-ice-volcanic-eruption-trigger-melting and here https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2844/fire-below-ice-above-volcanoes-glaciers-and-sea-level-rise/ for more on Arctic volcanism. Aso https://www.nathab.com/blog/under-the-ice-in-antarctica-and-greenland-more-future-warming-and-a-past-cooling-down/ and https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/nsf-puv062818.php abd https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/12/scientists-discover-91-volcanos-antarctica

BTW, Richard Cronin was a chemical engineer working for the American Geophysical Union.

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