A Tropical Storm Could Hit Greenland

moon said:
It was joined to Gondwanaland.



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Do you ever stop bullshitting, Moonshi'ite?

Ancient Greenland was much warmer than previously thought New knowledge helps researchers understand how Greenland's ice sheet responds to warming

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Although researchers have long known that the last two interglacial periods experienced warming in the Arctic due to changes in the Earth's orbit, a mix of fly species preserved from these times in a rare lake sediment core shows that Greenland was even warmer than previously thought. This information could help researchers better gauge Greenland's sensitivity to warming, by testing and improving models of climate and ice sheet behavior.

A tiny clue found in ancient sediment has unlocked big secrets about Greenland's past and future climate.

Just beyond the northwest edge of the vast Greenland Ice Sheet, Northwestern University researchers have discovered lake mud that beat tough odds by surviving the last ice age. The mud, and remains of common flies nestled within it, record two interglacial periods in northwest Greenland. Although researchers have long known these two periods -- the early Holocene and Last Interglacial -- experienced warming in the Arctic due to changes in Earth's orbit, the mix of fly species preserved from these times shows that Greenland was even warmer than previously thought.

This information could help researchers better gauge Greenland's sensitivity to warming, by testing and improving models of climate and ice sheet behavior. Those models could then improve predictions of how Greenland's ice sheet, which covers 80 percent of the Arctic country and holds enough ice to equal 20 feet of global sea level, might respond to human-made global warming.

"Northwest Greenland might feel really remote, but what happens to that ice sheet is going to matter to everyone in New York City, Miami and every coastal city around the world," said Yarrow Axford, the study's senior author and an associate professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Northwestern. "One of the big uncertainties in climate science remains how fast the Earth changes when it gets warmer. Geology gives us an opportunity to see what happened when the Earth was warmer than today."

Published June 4 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study included contributions from collaborators at Dartmouth College.

People might be surprised to see how today's frigid Greenland looked during the last two interglacial periods. Today, northwest Greenland hovers in the 30s and low 40s Fahrenheit and weathers snowstorms in summer. But average summer temperatures in the early Holocene (8,000 to 11,000 years ago) and Last Interglacial (116,000 to 130,000 years ago) climbed well into the 50s.

During the Last Interglacial, global sea levels increased by 15 to 30 feet, largely due to thinning of Greenland and Antarctica's ice sheets. But now Northwestern's team believes northern Greenland's ice sheet experienced stronger warming than previously thought, which could mean that Greenland is more responsible for that sea-level rise.

Layers of time

To measure these ancient temperatures, researchers look to ice cores and lake sediment cores. Because ice and lake sediment form by an incremental buildup on annual layers of snow or mud, these cores contain archives of the past. By looking through the layers, researchers can pinpoint climate clues from eons ago. Finding lake sediments older than about 10,000 years, however, has been historically very difficult in Greenland.

"The classic thing that glaciers do is slide," Axford said. "So when the ice sheet grows larger, all this wonderful geology gets scooped up and spat out into the oceans."

But Axford's team found an area where this wasn't the case.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180604151150.htm
 
maggot appears to believe that Greenland was never joined to Gondwanaland.

I repeat, maggot is a fraudulent fool.
 
moon said:
You're just a mendacious publicist for the military/industrial complex , maggot. You follow the science of misinformation for the sake of your wallet.

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Published June 4 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study included contributions from collaborators at Dartmouth College.

People might be surprised to see how today's frigid Greenland looked during the last two interglacial periods. Today, northwest Greenland hovers in the 30s and low 40s Fahrenheit and weathers snowstorms in summer. But average summer temperatures in the early Holocene (8,000 to 11,000 years ago) and Last Interglacial (116,000 to 130,000 years ago) climbed well into the 50s.

During the Last Interglacial, global sea levels increased by 15 to 30 feet, largely due to thinning of Greenland and Antarctica's ice sheets. But now Northwestern's team believes northern Greenland's ice sheet experienced stronger warming than previously thought, which could mean that Greenland is more responsible for that sea-level rise.
 
Primavera said:
Fuck off Jockette!
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The link appears to have slapped you in the kisser, maggot.
Yes, folks, Greenland was once joined to Gondwanaland. So was the North American plate . maggot is simply conjoined with himself.


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moon said:
The link appears to have slapped you in the kisser, maggot.
Yes, folks, Greenland was once joined to Gondwanaland. So was the North American plate . maggot is simply conjoined with himself.


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U Suck.

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moon said:
The link appears to have slapped you in the kisser, maggot.
Yes, folks, Greenland was once joined to Gondwanaland. So was the North American plate . maggot is simply conjoined with himself.


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I'm talking about 8000 years ago, not 80 million, shit for brains.
 
Primavera said:
I'm talking about 8000 years ago, not 80 million, shit for brains.
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Ah- a rearguard action from the Brit maggot
A tad late, old sport, your rear has long-since capitulated.

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So then- if it gets much warmer in Greenland then El Trumpo will have to up his price for it.



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