Below is a video from the National Wildlife Federation documenting the trip of several people to some glacier in Greenland. It begins with the calving of ice from a glacier, something that happens thousands of times each year, especially in the summer.
The people make it clear that they think they are going to be “seeing” global warming in action. But what will they be able to compare it to? Have they ever been to Greenland in the summer before, say, 20 or 30 years ago? If not, they’re not going to be able to determine anything. The scary part it that they think they’re going to come back with certain knowledge. The museum director has his mind made up, as you will see, and he hasn’t even gotten there yet.
As the main NWF guy speaks, the video shows ice in a bay, the implication being that the amount we’re seeing is much greater now than in the past. The Jakobshavn glacier they’re visiting is in southwestern Greenland, where floating ice should be plentiful anyway. When I lived in Thule, many hundreds of miles to the north, North Star Bay in the summer looked as filled with ice as the scenes in their video.
