Arctic sea ice extent is up 40% from this date five years ago.
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Greenland's surface gained ten times as much ice as it did five years ago, and was the fifth highest on record.
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Greenland's most famous glacier, the Petermann Glacier, has grown substantially and steadily over the past five years.
NASA Satellite Imagery
This is a big change from 1939, when the glaciers of Greenland and Norway were facing catastrophic collapse.
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It is also a big change from 65 years ago, when the glaciers of Norway and Alaska had lost half their mass, and threatened to drown seaports.
© The Cairns Post
Climate scientists have responded to this years large Arctic ice gain by doing the only thing they know how to do - lie about it.
Comment: The real story is more nuanced. It is possible to have both Arctic ice gain and melting permafrost, if you don't try to ascribe them to the same mechanisms.
Melting permafrost is associated with methane pockets bubbling up to the surface. This implies heating from within, such as undetected movements of magma
- Melting permafrost methane emissions: The other threat to climate change
- Methane outgassing from Arctic lakes faster than ever
- Greenland ice sheet is melting but much of the heating is coming from inside the earth
and, there can still be a general cooling trend if one looks to solar activity as a driver, instead of man's puny effect on the atmosphere.