Greenland’s Gains Threaten Records; The West Shivers; + Clouds Dwarf CO2

The climate system is not controlled by CO2. It is full of competing terms, offsets and feedbacks. Push one lever, and another moves to balance it. This is the point.

Greenland’s Gains Threaten Records

Greenland keeps on keeping on.

DMI’s June 29 update shows the ice sheet still adding mass deep into melt season, with fresh gains across the southeast, south and northwest interior:

The daily SMB line is poking through the upper edge of the late-June range, gaining what looks to be the largest mass, for the time of year, in books dating back to 1958:

As a result, the season’s accumulated SMB also continues to impress, aiming up even as the calendar approaches July:

The West Shivers

Here’s another one to file under “Snowfalls are just a thing of the past.”