SIgns of Melt in Deep Interior Greenland

Michael Tobis

Michael Tobis, editor-in-chief of Planet3.0 and site cofounder, has always been interested in the interface between science and public policy. He holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences where he developed a 3-D ocean model on a custom computing platform. He has been involved in sustainability conversations on the internet since 1992, has been a web software developer since 2000, and has been posting sustainability articles on the web since 2007.

Andrew Freedman at Climate Central has the story. It’s not pretty.

But it’s pretty compelling.

Here’s observed seasonal albedo for the whole GIS:

Here’s the instantaneous albedo anomaly as of last week, compared to the same time of year in the observations:

4 comments on “SIgns of Melt in Deep Interior Greenland”

Interesting that Freedman wonders about a connection between wildfires and albedo loss; presumably a chemical assay of the crud on the ice would pin that down?