Hi Graham,

Here is a 15 minute video on ice melt and its dangerous impacts on our world.

https://youtu.be/KLk8Uy2-Lsk

And it is one of the world’s top Climate Change scientists. His presentation is easy to understand.

But, if you do watch it, dont mention it to your colleagues. Nothing worse than having to contend with real science. You could pretend you were with Alice, in Wonderland.

Hi Tony, check out https://www.dmi.dk/en/groenland/maalinger/greenland-ice-sheet-surface-mass-budget/ and you'll see that hardly any part of the Greenland glaciers go into the ocean. And if there is less weight on the end of the glacier it is less likely to slide. That's physics for you. The reason for the melting under a glacier is either pressure from above, which lowers the temperature at which water becomes solid, or heating in the earth. So, the more weight above on the glacier, the faster it moves. Or the more volcanic activity there is, the faster it might slide. Take weight off the bottom and it won't speed it up, but it might slow it down.

End of article states “As mentioned, satellites measuring the ice sheet mass have observed a loss of around 200 Gt/year over the last decade.”

200 Gt/Year spells ice sheet reduction to me. Question is: is the loss increasing with time?

Graham,
You seem to reside in your own cacoon of limited knowledge.
Here is another article, scientist written, describing many Greenland glaciers, with long tongues, where the most prominent ablation mechanism is bottom melting - warm oceans doing the ablation.

You seem to have a block to discussing CC caused warming of deep ocean currents, and their impacts on glacier melting.

But, I understand. Being of the far right, politics trumps science everywhere. The far right abhors government regulation, and if a position of science would cause further regulation, the far right attempts to trash the reputation of scientists, without understanding the science.

I am afraid that is how I view your writings.

Such an approach delayed the formal recognition of the smoking / lung cancer link for decades, and attempted to destroy the reputations of climate scientists.

It is as if the free market is a religious structure that must be protected. Its holy grail is maximising profit, primarily for the rich.

Even, it appears, if such protective actions ruin a world for all children.

How much of Greenland is actually land & how much is ocean? It looks like to me that Greenland is multiple Islands topped with Ice. How much Geo Thermal activity is there is in Iceland just next door?

I doubt very much if all the melting is due to burning Coal as claimed by the Brain dead Greenies.

Dear GrahamY,

You wrote;

“Steele has given some evidence that there may be accelerated melt, but no evidence as to why.”

If you turn that “may be” into 'from the evidence there appears to be' I think we could move forward. As my previous posts reiterated without either a broad acceptance that there is an increase in Greenland ice melt, or a reasonable explanation of why you found the evidence I provided to be suspect, then exploring why it is happening is a rather moot exercise.