I thought Greenlands Ice was melting faster? Is it a lie?

Question

http://www.dailytech.com/So+Much+For+Flooded+Cities+Greenland+Ice+Loss+Not+Increasing/article12277.htm

Answer 1

Sorry these aren't as prestigious as dailytech they are just NASA, national geographic  and the BBC

Answer 2

The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting on the edges, but it is actually getting thicker in the middle because of increased snowfall.

Answer 3

To be fair it wasn't exactly a "lie".  At the time they held up this "poster child" it was actually melting faster.  

The problem with this whole Global Warming house of cards is that they pick these small events and try to make their case.  Then when things change, they adjust the way they phrase it.  

Here is a good example.  According to satellite records, the earth has actually stayed the same over the last 10 years - so now when Al Gore speaks about the highest temperatures on record - he goes back over the last 20 years.

Pretty neat trick (almost as good as his CO2 causes temp rise -- problem is temp rise comes many years before CO2 rises) and very profitable.  According to a Tennessee watchdog group Mr. Gore is up to almost $100 million !

Follow the money, watch what they DO - not what they say, and keep reading - the debate is not over and scientists are coming out of the woodwork with anti Global Warming facts.

Answer 4

Your link is a lie.  

Why is there no public debate on global warming?  Because deniers misrepresent every scientific study on the subject.  This is a clear example of this.

Answer 5

the center is increasing, so possibly no

Answer 6

Anything you read in Michael Asher's blog should be taken as fiction. He makes more errors than a blind baseball player trying to make it in the major leagues.

Asher has a knack at misrepresenting actual scientific papers that neither he nor his readership apparently ever bothers to read.  If anyone bothers to click on the link in Asher's blog they'll go to Dr. van de Wal's web-site.  If they then click on the Publications link, they'll find that Dr. van de Wal put up a special page to explain to non-glaciologists the misunderstandings that people like Asher make about his paper.  Here's a direct link:

http://www.phys.uu.nl/%7Ewal/research/pa...

Answer 7

it will take about other one Millon years to melt

Answer 8

it's exact n true. We're enough intelligent 2 realize n understand it.

Answer 9

Well....... the glacier is flowing into the ocean at a rapid clip, but it turns out there's a lava hotspot directly under the point where the glacier is melting.   So a little bit of melting at the ground level and the whole thing slides, which can make it slide much faster than it would just with warmer temperatures above it.

Of course, if the University of Kansas ever received a single donation from any company remotely related to the energy industry, that in the minds of the believers will give them an excuse not to believe it.

Oooooh, five thumbs down - - - I guess I struck a nerve.     The poster child for AGW turns out to be, in Eck's words, "BotherSome."

Answer 10

The author of the paper that Asher is discussing gives this interpretation of his own work:

http://www.phys.uu.nl/%7Ewal/research/pa...

It is a decidedly more nuanced interpretation of the results than provided by Asher, but the bottom line is that ice sheet ablation is proceeding as predicted by climate models, and that is cause for concern as far as sea level rise goes.