A Picture from Greenland has Resulted into a Debate Online
Jun 24, 2019
Recently a scientist named Steffen Olsen went on a routine trip in northwest Greenland to check the weather conditions of the place. He shared a picture from there on his social media which has resulted in a debate on global warming.
The picture shows how water had pooled on the surface. Although the sea ice is normally dense with no cracks but the photo gives the impression that the dogs are walking on water.
Communities in #Greenland rely on the sea ice for transport, hunting and fishing. Extreme events, here flooding of the ice by abrupt onset of surface melt call for an incresed predictive capacity in the Arctic @BG10Blueaction @polarprediction @dmidk https://t.co/Y1EWU1eurA
— Steffen M. Olsen (@SteffenMalskaer) June 14, 2019
This has happened second time when the ice started melting before time which is not okay. William Colgan, a senior researcher at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, told BBC, “It’s very unusual to have this much melt so early in the season.”
The picture has gone viral and many people commented on this global weather issue:
Anybody who says global warming isn't a thing should take look at this picture taken last Thursday by Steffen Olsen of Denmark's Meteorological Institute crossing a glacier in Greenland flooded by a half meter of melt water. That same day, Greenland lost 2 Gigatons of ice. pic.twitter.com/QRI8e647ZD
— peter crozier (@pacrozier) June 18, 2019
Photo taken on Thursday, June 13, 2019 by Steffen Olsen, a scientist with the @dmidk. Dogs appear to be walking on water in what should be flat white sea ice in Greenland????????. The reality of rapidly melting sea ice in the #Arctic Via @CNN https://t.co/AeLiG0mUj3 #ClimateEmergency pic.twitter.com/6EudWVf3Bm
— Nektarina Non Profit (@nektarina) June 19, 2019
Greenland's summer ice melt started in April this year. #ClimateChangeIsReal ????
— Joan Castiñeira (@joancastineira) June 18, 2019
????: Danish Meteorological Inst. / Steffen Olsen pic.twitter.com/sDA4OFWixn
Hello @SteffenMalskaer. I Would like to use this photo on @TVN24BiS with all the credits, describing weather and climate related topics. Do I have your permission?
— Marcin Dr??yk (@mdrazyk) June 18, 2019
Hi, Stefan: reading the tweet of the picture, and this one, one might think that the reason for the melting water on top of the ice, rather than a sign of decreasing ice due to climate change, is a sign of thicker, less porous ice. Can you clarify? Thx https://t.co/zY00H4TR2c
— Daoiz Velarde (@velardedaoiz) June 19, 2019
This is photos of Churchill Manitoba Canada this week. Locals can’t remember this much ice so late in the season. There is always open water by June 1 each year, but not this year. So, maybe earlier in Greenland this year, later in Canada...it’s called weather! pic.twitter.com/EPu1P7PiC4
— Sheldon Affleck (@AffleckSheldon) June 16, 2019
Why is NO ONE interested that Canada has more ice later in year than ever. Just cos it does not fit their theory of global warming
— Ken Ellison (@keninmarciac) June 18, 2019
Hi Cesar, Steffen is still in Greenland at the moment. Please get in touch with us or @dmidk and we can do our best to arrange a telco when he is back. Thank you!
— Blue-Action (@BG10Blueaction) June 20, 2019
Hi Cesar, Steffen is still in Greenland at the moment. Please get in touch with us or @dmidk and we can do our best to arrange a telco when he is back. Thank you!
— Blue-Action (@BG10Blueaction) June 20, 2019