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"A sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 showed the giant northern
island 2.7 degrees (1.5 degrees Celsius) hotter than its 20th-century average,
the warmest in more than 1,000 years, according to new ice core data.
Until now Greenland ice cores — a glimpse into long-running temperatures
before thermometers — hadn’t shown much of a clear signal of global warming on
the remotest north central part of the island, at least compared to the rest of
the world. But the ice cores also hadn’t been updated since 1995. Newly
analyzed cores, drilled in 2011, show a dramatic rise in temperature in the
previous 15 years, according to a study in Wednesday’s journal Nature.
“We keep on (seeing) rising temperatures between 1990s and 2011,” said study
lead author Maria Hoerhold, a glaciologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute in
Germany. “We have now a clear signature of global warming.”
It takes years to analyze ice core data. Hoerhold has new cores from 2019 but
hasn’t finished studying them yet. She expects the temperature rise to continue
as Greenland’s ice sheet and glaciers have been melting faster recently.
“This is an important finding and corroborates the suspicion that the ‘missing
warming’ in the ice cores is due to the fact that the cores end before the
strong warming sets in,” said climate scientist Martin Stendel of the Danish
Meteorological Institute, who wasn’t part of the research."
Via Kenny Chaffin.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
