Greenland Sea Warms 10 Times Faster

[icyfroth]

Study to focus on Arctic after Greenland Sea found to have warmed 10 times faster than global ocean

Scientists have revealed plans to examine temperature changes in the Arctic Ocean after a long-term study found the Greenland Sea is warming 10 times faster than the global ocean.

Scientists from Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) analysed temperature data from the Greenland Sea between 1950 and 2010.

Their results show that during the past 30 years water temperatures between two kilometres deep and the ocean floor have risen by 0.3 degrees Celsius.

Dr Raquel Somavilla Cabrillo, AWI scientist and lead author of the study, says researchers are surprised by the results.

Dr Somavilla says the Arctic region is a leading indicator of climate change.

"It has one of the highest sensitivities to climate warming, that is clear," she said.

"It is suffering sea ice retreat, sea surface temperature is warming faster than in other areas, so the sensitivity is higher than in other places."

She says a deep water temperature increase of 0.3 degrees Celsius may sound like a small number, but it needs to be seen in relation to the large mass of water that has been warmed.

"The amount of heat accumulated within the lowest 1.5 kilometres in the abyssal Greenland Sea would warm the atmosphere above Europe by 4 degrees Celsius," she said.

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Degradation of the Planet is picking

[windrake]

The ABC ran this!! well it must be true because they have been in a "Global Warming" frenzy since Labor lost & a Conservative government got in.

I'm over the "Global Warming" hysterial religiion, the rent seekers are getting more shrill every day. I am disgusted with the ABC & the line thay have taken since Labor lost.

[pct001wine]

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The ABC ran this!! well it must be true because they have been in a "Global Warming" frenzy since Labor lost & a Conservative government got in.

I'm over the "Global Warming" hysterial religiion, the rent seekers are getting more shrill every day. I am disgusted with the ABC & the line thay have taken since Labor lost.

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Why can't we have a rational discussion about this article without resorting to shooting the messenger ? Global Warming frenzy ? Hysterial (sic) religiion (sic) ? Rent seekers ? (btw, Conservatives are much more adept at "rent seeking" - check your definition)

Shrill ? The only shrillness here is from ... sigh, I think you get the picture.

OP, thanks for posting this, certainly food for thought.

[*crikey*mate*]

wouldn't that be because there is (presumedly) less ice there now so it is not keeping as cold as it used to?

and as more ice melts (so not at 0 degrees) it creates more water at say 4 degrees, which in turn keeps melting the ice ad nauseum.

because there is no ice in other areas keeping the water extra cold to replicate that cycle, the temperature variation isn't a significant.

Can you compare climatic changes between 2 different environments?

[spotweldersfriend]

Dateline on SBS (another commie bastion) had a story a couple of weeks ago about the number of mining companies lining up to extract minerals from Greenland. One Australian geologist said there were enough rare earth elements to last us a thousand years. Some of the locals,particularly those farming expressed concerns.

[freakiness]

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@windrake wrote:

The ABC ran this!! well it must be true because they have been in a "Global Warming" frenzy since Labor lost & a Conservative government got in.

I'm over the "Global Warming" hysterial religiion, the rent seekers are getting more shrill every day. I am disgusted with the ABC & the line thay have taken since Labor lost.

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Who's the frenzied ones?

would it be Vanstone, Reith, Henderson, Ackerman, the IPA reps, Downer, Carnel, Sloane, or any of the other regulars right wing hacks?  

Anyone who claims the ABC has a left wing bias does not watch much of the ABC.  Labor did not dump all those who were appointed by the previous Lib govt just for the sake of sacking Lib appointees.

[lakeland27]

 old handbrake is good at rash generalisations without backup or proof .

[j*oono]

Isn't that funny.  Peter Reith was just on Bolt calling global warming science a religion.  

[lakeland27]

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@j*oono wrote:

Isn't that funny.  Peter Reith was just on Bolt calling global warming science a religion.  

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 he's got a million of them. he doesn't mind looking stupid at all.

[monman12]

"Labor did not dump all those who were appointed by the previous Lib govt just for the sake of sacking Lib appointees."

You can hardly blame the Libs for dumping the board of the NBN snail farm, apart from which the ALP are experts at  disposing of their own leaders whilst Bob Carr dumped himself after repeatedly insisting he would serve a full six-year term,

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