Greenland gained tremendous amounts of ice in July, at a time when the Danish autonomous territory is normally experiencing melting and ice receding.
The Danish Meteorological Institute reported that Greenland added approximately three gigatons of ice on July 30, exceeded in the month by a four gigaton gain earlier in the summer on July 1. The gains in July, which have continued into August have added to a significant total net gain in ice for Greenland over the past year.
Reporting on the mid-term ice trends in Greenland, Electroverse writes:
The 1981-2010 averages call for significant summer melt at this time of year, what we saw yesterday was a 3 Gigaton gain.
… [T]he tides have clearly turned for the Greenland ice sheet, since 2012, [when ice levels reached their lowest point since regular measurements began]
Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, for example, has grown almost ten miles since 2012, when the press hysterically announced the glacier’s imminent demise (As seen in the satellite image from NASA, below).
