A number of days of unusually heat climate in northern Greenland have triggered speedy melting, made seen by the rivers of meltwater speeding into the ocean. Temperatures have been working round 60 levels Fahrenheit — 10 levels hotter than regular for this time of yr, scientists advised CNN.
The quantity of ice that melted in Greenland between July 15 and 17 alone — 6 billion tons of water per day — could be sufficient to fill 7.2 million Olympic-sized swimming swimming pools, in accordance with information from the US Nationwide Snow and Ice Knowledge Middle.
Put one other means, it was sufficient to cowl the complete state of West Virginia with a foot of water.
“The northern soften this previous week just isn’t regular, 30 to 40 years of local weather averages,” mentioned Ted Scambos, a senior analysis scientist on the Nationwide Snow and Ice Knowledge Middle on the College of Colorado. “However melting has been on the rise, and this occasion was a spike in soften.”
For the scientists out on the ice sheet, the heat has been alarming.
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“It undoubtedly worries me,” mentioned Kutalmis Saylam, a analysis scientist with the College of Texas who’s at present stationed in Greenland. “Yesterday we may wander round in our t-shirts — that was probably not anticipated.”
Every summer time, scientists fear that they’ll see a repeat of the report melting that occurred in 2019, when 532 billion tons of ice flowed out into the ocean. An unexpectedly sizzling spring and a July warmth wave that yr precipitated nearly the complete ice sheet’s floor to soften. World sea degree rose completely by 1.5 millimeters in consequence.
Greenland holds sufficient ice — if all of it melted — to carry sea degree by 7.5 meters world wide.
The newest analysis factors to a increasingly more precarious state of affairs on the Northern Hemisphere’s most icy island.
“Unprecedented” charges of melting have been noticed on the backside of the Greenland ice sheet, a research revealed in February discovered, brought on by big portions of meltwater trickling down from the floor. This water is especially regarding as a result of it could destabilize the sheet above it and could lead on to an enormous, speedy lack of ice.
And in 2020, scientists discovered that Greenland’s ice sheet had melted past the purpose of no return. No efforts to stave off world warming can cease it from ultimately disintegrating, mentioned researchers at The Ohio State College. The speed of melting in recent times exceeds something Greenland has skilled within the final 12,000, one other research discovered — and sufficient to trigger measurable change within the gravitational area over Greenland.
On the East Greenland Ice-core Challenge — or EastGRIP — analysis camp in northwest Greenland, the work of scientists to know the impression of local weather change is being thwarted by local weather change itself.
Aslak Grinsted, a local weather scientist on the College of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute, advised CNN that they’ve been attempting to get flights into the camp to allow them to ship out the ice cores they’ve not too long ago collected. However the heat is destabilizing the touchdown website.
“The temperatures we’re seeing proper now are just too sizzling for the ski-equipped planes to land,” Grinsted mentioned. “So we retailer the ice cores in massive synthetic caves we now have made into the snow to guard it from the warmth of the summer time.”
Scientists make the most of the irregular heat whereas they wait, taking part in volleyball of their shorts on an ice sheet on the prime of the world.
Earlier than human-caused local weather change kicked in, temperatures close to 32 levels Fahrenheit there have been unprecedented. However because the Nineteen Eighties, this area has warmed by round 1.5 levels Fahrenheit per decade — 4 occasions sooner than the worldwide tempo — making it all of the extra doubtless that temperatures will cross the melting threshold.
Grinsted referred the temperatures on the EastGRIP analysis website as a “warmth wave,” and famous that world warming is pushing the mercury larger extra typically.
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“Sure, the possibility of temperatures getting this sizzling is clearly linked to world warming,” Grinsted mentioned.
Michigan State football appears to be closing in on their newest commitment in the 2025 recruiting class, looking to flip a prospect committed to another power conference school.
Terrance ‘Deuce’ Edwards is a defensive back prospect committed to West Virginia. A high 3-star prospect, Edwards is the cousin of former MSU wide receiver Felton Davis. He is from Richmond, Virginia.
After an official visit to see the Spartans defeat Purdue on Friday night, the Spartans seem to be in pole position to flip the West Virginia commit, receiving crystal ball predictions from the 247Sports staff.
At 6-foot-1 and 180 pounds, Edwards is someone that can play both outside cornerback and in the nickel position.
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Be on the lookout for movement in this recruitment in the coming days.
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Former West Virginia University defensive standouts, Arizona defensive lineman Dante Stills and linebacker Kyzir White, are looking to slow down West Virginia’s all-time passing leader Geno Smith and the Seattle offense Sunday afternoon in a critical divisional game in the NFC West. It’s the first meeting between the two divisional rivals this season.
On the Seahawks’ first possession of the game, Geno Smith delivered a dart to DK Metcalf for 29 yards on third and seven. Then, on third and four and just inside Arizona territory at the 47-yard line, Smith was sacked by Dante Stills, forcing the Seahawks to punt.
With the sack, Stills has 4.5 sacks on the season. In addition, he currently has 30 tackles, and four tackles for a loss this season.
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Arizona sits atop the NFC West at 6-4 but a Seattle win and a Los Angeles Rams loss against the Philadelphia Eagles Sunday night places the Seahawks in first place.
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Although the sportsbooks didn’t have the West Virginia Mountaineers favored to beat UCF, everyone who has followed this team all year long saw Saturday’s result coming from a mile away.
I’m not trying to be smart here, but this team is the purest definition of average. They beat the teams they should and lose to the teams they should. There haven’t been any whacky results where they’ve lost to an inferior squad or taken down one above them in the Big 12 standings. They’re just average.
Beating UCF isn’t something to pound your chest about by any means, with all due respect to the Knights. They entered the weekend with a 4-6 record and had lost six of its last seven coming into the matchup.
For WVU head coach Neal Brown, this was more about not losing this game than it was about winning it. Now, if you ask him, that’s not the answer he’d provide, but it’s just the truth of the situation. Had the Mountaineers found a way to let this one slip through their fingers, the pressure on athletics director Wren Baker would have been turned up to extreme levels.
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Just because WVU didn’t lose to UCF doesn’t necessarily mean that West Virginia is 100% moving forward with Neal Brown as head coach, but that’s the sense I get. With the early signing period set to begin on December 4th, just days after the final game of the season at Texas Tech, it leaves very little time for a change to be made at the end of the regular season.
Plus, if the Mountaineers win in Lubbock and then go on to win the bowl game, they’ll finish the year with an 8-5 record, bringing them just one game shy of what they accomplished a year ago. That doesn’t make it acceptable by any means; it just lessens the sting of what has been a very disappointing season.
If this does happen, WVU will have put together the best two-year stretch they’ve had since joining the Big 12 with consecutive 6-3 records. Now, when you look at who those 12 wins have come against, it’s not the most impressive thing in the world, but it’s still something for the administration to point to as a sign of hope. It also means the Mountaineers would finish somewhere in the top half of the league, which is on par with what they were picked to do in the preseason poll.
Again, don’t confuse this with what I believe I think should happen. WVU wants to do everything it possibly can to avoid having to pay Neal Brown’s buyout. If that means clinging on for another year, so be it. It’s not what I would do if I were Wren Baker, but that’s the feeling I get.
WVU sees the frustration from the fanbase. They share that disappointment, believe it or not.
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But the one thing I keep wondering is if next year’s non-conference slate is part of what keeps him around. Not that a decision like this is being made based on that, but 2025 will be the first year in Brown’s tenure that WVU didn’t play two Power Four teams in non-conference play. Instead of challenging yourself, you can gift-wrap another win by substituting that game with a Group of Five opponent.
This is the way WVU wants to schedule moving forward, so seeing how Brown handles a supposedly lighter slate may be what they view as a fair assessment instead of going off the previous six years of falling short of expectations. Is that how it should be handled? No, but just throwing that out there as something that may be tossed around from within.
I haven’t heard a peep about West Virginia plans to do with Brown, but if I had to put my money on it, I expect that he’ll be back in 2025. Should they fail to meet expectations next year, they’ll cut ties. WVU has already given Neal Brown one of the longest leashes you’ll see, and sticking with him for another year will show the next head coach how patient the university is.
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