Grønland Varmere For 80 År Siden PDF Print E-mail
Written by Box, J.E., Yang, L., Bromwich, D.H. and Bai, L.-S. 2009   
Thursday, 06 May 2010 21:53


greenland-25Box et al har brugt en blanding af 12 kyst- og 40 indlandsterommeter data i kombination med klimamodel output og således rekonstrueret langtids (1840-2007) månedlig, årstids og årlig mønster af temperaturændring over et kontinuerlig gitter, som dækker Grønland og dens indlandsis.

Ifølge disse målinger er de nået frem til at, af de to sidste varmeperioder, var den første (1919-1932) den mest markante og den med den højeste temperatur.
På grafen nedenfor ses Grønlands temperatur afvigelser i blåt og den nordlige halvkugles temperatursving i rødt.

Den nuværende varmeperiode i Grønland er væsentlig svagere, 33% lavere gradient, end den i 30'ne.  Dette er så meget mere påfaldende eftersom CO2 spore gassen kun steg 0,0005% i den forrige varmeperiode, medens kultveilten steg 0,0025% i denne periode.



At dette ikke er nogen nyopdagelse, kan ses ud fra historiske betragtninger.  Det er interessant at læse de indfødte grønlænderes egen betragtning, som er mere jordnær, logisk og moden end vore dages maltraktering af videnskaben:

 

Opvarmning ikke nyt for Grønland


Takket være, at datidens teknik ikke var så avanceret som i dag, blev vi gamle grønlændere i vor barndom og ungdom forskånet fra nutidens daglige alarmerende rapporter om ekstrem afsmeltning af isen ved Nordpolen og indlandsisen samt sneen i Grønland. Opvarmningen i dag er ikke kommet så vidt, at der er åbnet en skibsrute fra Atlanterhavet til Stillehavet nord om Sibirien, som det var tilfældet i 1930’ne.

Læs hele artiklen her...

 

 

Near-Surface Greenland Air Temperatures: 1840-2007


Reference:
Box, J.E., Yang, L., Bromwich, D.H. and Bai, L.-S. 2009. Greenland ice sheet surface air temperature variability: 1840-2007. Journal of Climate 22: 4029-4049.

What was done
"Using a set of 12 coastal and 40 inland ice surface air temperature records in combination with climate model output," the authors say they reconstructed "long-term (1840-2007) monthly, seasonal, and annual spatial patterns of temperature variability over a continuous grid covering Greenland and the inland ice sheet," after which they say they compared "the 1919-32 and 1994-2007 warming episodes" and made "a comparison of Greenland ice sheet surface air temperature temporal variability with that of the Northern Hemisphere average."

What was learned
The near-surface air temperature history that Box et al. derived for Greenland is reproduced in the figure below, along with the corresponding history of Northern Hemispheric near-surface air temperature.

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Figure 1. Low-pass-filtered Greenland and Northern Hemispheric near-surface air temperature anomalies with respect to the 1951-1980 base period vs. time. Adapted from Box et al. (2009).

Based on the results depicted in the figure above, the four researchers determined that "the annual whole ice sheet 1919-32 warming trend is 33% greater in magnitude than the 1994-2007 warming," and that "in contrast to the 1920s warming, the 1994-2007 warming has not surpassed the Northern Hemisphere anomaly." Indeed, they note that "an additional 1.0°-1.5°C of annual mean warming would be needed for Greenland to be in phase with the Northern Hemisphere pattern."

What it means
In spite of all the fuss climate alarmists make about Greenland being on the verge of crossing a tipping point and beginning to experience dramatic ice loss, the results of Box et al. demonstrate there is nothing unusual, unnatural or unprecedented about the nature of its 1994-2007 warming episode. In fact, it is much less impressive than the 1919-1932 warming; and it becomes even more "less impressive" when it is realized that the atmosphere's CO2 concentration only rose by about 5 ppm during the earlier period of stronger warming but by fully 25 ppm (five times more) during the later period of weaker warming.
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