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    That Hurricane melted greenland

    By jollyroger on Mon, 01/18/2016 - 4:51pm |

     

    This could be some really bad shit

     

    As you will recall from countless weather reports. most hurricanes "pass harmlessly off the coast."

     

    That is, they go NORTH instead of continuing west across the Atlantic, and therefore pass between North America and Europe.

     

    In other words, they hit Greenland.

     

     The glaciologists are freaking out about the impact that this this very rare January hurricane has had on Greenland.

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    Having suffered misconstruction, I herewith notify any parties necessary (PP, I'm talkin' to you...) that I advisedly chose the  "memo from department of hysterical responses" format for the title of this post.


    by jollyroger on Mon, 01/18/2016 - 5:28pm

    The Citizens of Unhingeia thank you. Still, I won't consider the Carribeanization of Greenland complete until there are palm trees and rum bars on the beach with monkeys & umbrellas in fruity drinks. 50 years to replace Castro, and all we had to do was move the weather north. Think of walruses as dolphins and it's compleat. God Bless America.


    by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 01/19/2016 - 1:46am

    You are already too late--the russians have bought everything up because they're tired of cold weather ocean dips, Brighton Beach on Jan. 1 notwithstanding.

     

    Maybe if you crack your piggy bank right now, you can beat the rush,

     

    I am inventing a new metric, which shall call the derivative of correction, meaning the rate of change in the instances, frequency, (which is to saythe inverse of  interval between needing to correct a catastrophic projection upward in intensity and to be anticipated  sooner) and the probabality and degree of confidence of reaching a particular metric-- of the increasingly frequnet modifications of the probable parameters of the most salient metrics, like say, sea level

    Even to propose the metric is to close the argument.  Everyone by now has been struck ty the rise in the derivative of correction upward , etc. over the last `20 years.


    by jollyroger on Tue, 01/19/2016 - 2:40am

    You been dippin' into "A Beautiful Mind" again, ain't ye?


    by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 01/19/2016 - 3:38am

    https://shadowproof.com/2012/04/22/dont-bogart-that-joint-habib/
    What gave me away?

    by jollyroger on Tue, 01/19/2016 - 3:54am

    Leave it to Jolly, the few, the proud, the smokin' - but a long way from Vietnam


    by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 01/19/2016 - 4:14am

    Those pictures from the MODIS satellite was interesting showing the calving off of Jakobshaven and Disco Bay. There has been an accelerated movement on the glacier there for the last few years I have been following the ice melt. They just recently published a paper that explained the ice on Greenland is like Swiss Cheese.  Also they have known for a while thanks to satellite imagery that there is a very deep canyon that cuts Greenland in half under the ice. This canyon is deeper then sea level so Greenland maybe 2 islands. There is some active volcanoes under the ice but never melts through because of the thickness.  

    Greenland gets hit with North Atlantic Hurricanes often in the winter months but they usually form in the Mid Atlantic or North Atlantic. The last few years they have more then their share.  This storm is sub tropical so it had some cold air wrapped in its eye. It formed off of Africa which makes it rare. 

    Climate Reanalyzer is my go to weather and climate on a daily bases.  The Oceans are very warm right now. We need to start thinking really big ideas to combat climate change.  Things are speeding up and we may not be around in the future. 

    The article did not mention another important site to look at for surface winds is Earth Null School. You can see all the worlds storms and zoom in to see a closer detail of the winds. 

    JR did you pick this subject just for me? LOL 


    by trkingmomoe on Mon, 01/18/2016 - 9:05pm

    Things are speeding up

    so it would seem.  Just stumbled on the Geophysical Union Blog exchange  serendipitously....I'm all about the methane emergency, but I suddenly realized where all those hurricanes go when they pass "harmlessly"...


    by jollyroger on Mon, 01/18/2016 - 11:32pm

    I wouldn't want to omit WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN, "SWISS CHEESE"?


    by jollyroger on Tue, 01/19/2016 - 2:45am

    It is not solid but full of hidden holes where all the melt water flows through. It implies that it is going to melt a hell of lot faster then we thought a few years ago. 

    Here is a clip of a Cat 5 Hurricane hitting Iceland.  They get hurricanes like we do in Florida.  


    by trkingmomoe on Tue, 01/19/2016 - 8:20am

    Here is another clip of that storm.  It is was Hurricane Sandy. 


    by trkingmomoe on Tue, 01/19/2016 - 8:36am

    I was worried enough when I visualized a bar of ivory melting in a hot bathtub...


    by jollyroger on Tue, 01/19/2016 - 5:10pm