NASA | Ask a Climate Scientist: Thinning Ice Sheets

How can Greenland's ice sheets still be more than 10,000 feet thick, if carbon dioxide is warming the planet?

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[ahmedgunner]

Climate change deniers in the comments section.😕👎

[starcat]

Thank you for explaining the thinning of the ice sheets in a way most will understand.

[benjaminfalzon]

If the ice was thinning, the Ice road truckers in Canada and Alaska are not giving it any attention, because every winter season they keep trucking over the frozen 350ft deep lake ice road,
Not all of the NASA scientists are rocket scientists, there are also a few idiots.
The ice is increasing and the polar bear numbers are also increasing. In fact, a number of isolated polar communities have permits to hunt polar bears for meat and skins. each Community is allowed to hunt bears according to permit quota, the number of bears each community are allowed to hunt depends on the size of the population of each community. A few weeks ago I've read an article saying that the quota for bears hunts for those communities has been increased since the number of the bear population is on the increase.

[DukeVanDerVocal]

Woo HOO! Go Dr. Brunt! Tell 'em.

[NeonsStyleHD]

Not to mention decreasing ocean salinity levels.

[martywade]

I no scientist but I know you chop a block of ice into small pieces and it melts faster so stop all the ice breakers from chopping up the sea ice for a couple of years and see how sea ice fairs then to see if they are the cause of some of the problem.

[MrCelectronica]

What about the Antartic the ice sheet is growing. Could this be a normal climate change cycle, where Artic Ice melts and Antartic Ice grows?

[fsfingbat]

Since I'm not a climate scientist, I'll stay myself about global warming.
Will it take shutting down all of our factories and fossil fuel consumption to stop it or, is it, as they say, a drop in the bucket?

[puppetgrimm]

if the thermohaline circulation shuts down from fresh water interaction will global warming turn into another ice age?

[Systemrat]

There has been no appreciable warming for 17 years which has debunked the majority of climate models that suggested stuff like sea level rises. The increase in CO2 levels has however increased crop yields which helps feed people.

I wonder if those preaching what i increasingly believe is a form of religion are perhaps doing it as justification of funding or other gain.

[niteexplorer]

Just think!! if people world wide stayed healthy and Slim, how much less resources and hugely less CO2 and methane, they would emit personally and as part of the system!!!!