We’ve been hearing a lot of scare mongering about Greenland warming and what it migh portend regarding the melting of ice caps and rising sea levels. A brand new study in the Geophysical Research Letter gives us the facts.
“almost all decades between 1915 and 1965 were warmer than, or at least as warm as, the 1995 to 2005 decade, suggesting that the current warm Greenland climate is not unprecedented and that similar temperatures were [the] norm in the first half of the 20th century.”
“the average rate of warming was considerably higher within the 1920-1930 decade than within the 1995-2005 decade.”
“the Greenland warming of 1920 to 1930 demonstrates that a high concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is not a necessary condition for [a] period of warming to arise…the observed 1995-2005 temperature increase seems to be within [the] natural variability of Greenland climate.”
Read more about this study here.
