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"Melting ice led to a tsunami in Greenland. It could happen again."
#Greenland #Climate #ClimateChange

Melting ice led to a tsunami in Greenland. It could happen again.
A massive landslide sent huge waves crashing back and forth in a fjord.

Actual post by President Loser.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-post-shows-him-gazing-at-greenland-after-local-no-means-no-protests-11986488

"The American demands are so steep, Greenlandic officials fear, that they amount to a major imposition on their sovereignty. Despite all of the talk from Danish and American officials that Greenland’s future is up to the island’s 57,000 people, Greenlandic officials said the American demands would tie their hands for generations."
#usa

In Closed-Door Talks, U.S. Demands a Major Role in Greenland
Greenlandic officials worry about the direction of the negotiations aimed at defusing President Trump’s threats to seize their island. But they have little leverage.

Lakes forming next to Greenland's melting ice sheet are speeding up glacier flow #Greenland

Lakes forming next to Greenland's melting ice sheet are speeding up glacier flow
A growing network of meltwater lakes at the edge of the Greenland ice sheet is accelerating the flow of major glaciers, potentially increasing the pace of global sea-level rise. Warmer air and sea temperatures have led to the loss of around 264 gigatons of ice every year in Greenland since 2002, causing sea levels to rise by 0.8 millimeters annually. But a new study by the University of Leeds examining glacier behavior across the entire ice sheet has highlighted a lesser-known feature that is a…

Watched a couple of episodes of #DeArktiskeReddere on DR (public broadcaster on Denmark) yesterday (series about #Greenland's search and rescue team - though they do a lot of emergency air ambulance type work too).
It's a really gripping and well filmed piece of work, sensitive on the difficult topics too and shows really well how different authorities work together.
I imagine it would be uncomfortable watching for USians who seem to imagine some kind of stone age society seeing healthcare emergencies dealt with so professionally with such excellent equipment (and for free at point of delivery).
I also find it hard to explain that the categories and separation between "Danes" and "Greenlanders" isn't always so clear cut and I think the programme got that over well.
It's filmed mostly in Danish but with Swedish, Norwegian and quite a bit of English, so may not travel easily but it's a really well done piece of TV and if you are at all interested in Greenland, it's worth seeking out.
De arktiske reddere https://www.dr.dk/drtv/serie/de-arktiske-reddere_450849

"[The #Fediverse] became the only place consistently posting trustworthy information I could actually access. This became personally relevant when Trump threatened to invade #Greenland, which is the kind of sentence I never expected to type"

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse
I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter. So when Twitter was accidentally purchased

"Greenland Seaweed Carbon Storage Pathways Extend Hundreds of Kilometers Offshore"
#Greenland #Oceans #Environment

Greenland Seaweed Carbon Storage Pathways Extend Hundreds of Kilometers Offshore | Happy Eco News
Greenland seaweed carbon storage pathways reveal how floating macroalgae travel hundreds of kilometers offshore and sink to deep ocean layers, contributing to natural carbon cycling.

Proud PhD supervisor moment: @… have nice write up to Elke Schlager's brilliant work, (now a preprint in @…) on how we can use #MachineLearning methods to emulate #Greenland ice sheet melt via European Weather Cloud computing
https://europeanweather.cloud/use-cases/machine-learning-emulation-accelerate-climate-science

The preprint of the paper is here btw: #MachineLearning methods to emulate #Greenland ice sheet melt via European Weather Cloud computing
https://europeanweather.cloud/use-cases/machine-learning-emulation-accelerate-climate-science

Are you an MSc student looking for a thesis topic? Interested in Greenland/Antarctica atmosphere and ice sheet processes? Background in meteorology, geography, earth science or physics (or other quantitative discipline?
Then do I have the project for you...
I have just updated my list of open research ideas here:
#MScThesis #AcademicChatter #Greenland #Antarctica #ClimateChange #Meteorology #Wx #Glaciology #MachineLearning #ClimateModelling