No Greenland melt, just media hype and contradictions

7/25/12, "‘Unprecedented’ Greenland Surface Melt – Every 150 Years?," Dot Earth

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7/25/12, "News Report “NASA: Sudden Massive Melt in Greenland” – My Comments On This Media Hype," PielkeClimateSci.wordpress.com, Roger Pielke Sr.

"There has been widespread media reporting of this melting (e.g. Fox News, MSNBC), but the real news story is the overstatement of this weather event by the media (and some scientists at NASA). The headline is the biased part of the article, which Seth may not have much control on, but, regardless, this biased misleading headline needs to be identified."

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"Scientists said they believed that much of Greenland's ice was already freezing again."

Greenland summit webcam

7/25/12, "Satellites reveal sudden Greenland ice melt," BBC

"The surface of Greenland's massive ice sheet has melted this month over an unusually large area, Nasa has said....

According to ice core records, such pronounced melting at Summit station and across the ice sheet has not occurred since 1889.

"Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on average. With the last one happening in 1889, this event is right on time," said Lora Koenig, a glaciologist from Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and a member of the research team analysing the satellite data....

Scientists said they believed that much of Greenland's ice was already freezing again."....webcam via Steven Goddard






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