With their limited economy, I suggest Kalaallit Nunaat sell the naming rights to their new lakes.
I’m picturing future generations of schoolchildren asking how Lake Hardrockresortandcasinodotcom got its name.
Sorry, but that is just plain wrong.
In any case, what is happening today is very likely not a one-time fluke, given the rapidly accelerating melt being seen, along with rapidly rising global temperatures (see how much warmer it was now than in the late 1800s; ironically, this was from a study by skeptics in an attempt to discredit global temperature records).
Sort of like this, on the extreme heat seen in the U.S. over the past year or so (yeah, so it is local weather, not climate, but it is the extremity that is significant):
ETA: Sea level is also higher now that in the 1800s as well, which can only be because it is warmer and more ice has melted (recently, most sea level rise has been due to melting ice).
No, of course not. 1889 was the last time there was a general melting across the top of the icecap. The icecap itself would take thousands of years to melt-at some points it is over 2 miles thick.
Nah, you’d only need a couple dinosaur-killers to do the job, if my calculations in this thread on how much energy is needed are accurate. Or directing all of the sunlight hitting Earth onto the ice sheet for a couple months (preventing any from reflecting off).
“It’s a motivated seller!”
“…wielding an ax!”
Interesting article on this. Apparently, this “unprecidented” melting happens every 150 years, on average.
So, we’re maybe a bit early (it’s been 123 years since 1889), but the idea that this sort of melting has never happened before is simply not true.
I thought you had died, Andy Rooney.
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Greenland was warmer during the Medieval Warm Period, when Erik the Red founded the settlement there, than it was later during the Little Ice Age. It makes a difference when exactly you are talking about in history.