>>11021960Indeed.
I'm going to give a bit more analysis to the picture here.
>>11020100Greenland is melting, albeit at a rate which would take 10000 years to melt if sustained.
But we can clearly see a downward trend.
Antarctica seems to be melting as well, but at only 1/20th of greenland in relative terms (it would take 200,000 years at this rate)
Here we can see that the graph is pretty jittery. Look back at the greenland graph, do you see the noise? No. Because in essence the real scale, the percentage scale, is 20 times larger for Greenland.
Here we have a clear trend that drowns out the noise, this cannot be said for antarctica.
So that's why i claim it isn't really melting. It's not drowning out the month to month noise and it would take 200,000 years. Multiple ice ages come and go in that time frame.
To add, I want to point out how disingenuous this graph is, the only one published is the one with (Gt) off course and it ends in 2017, right when two years of very high SMB (snow mass balance) on Greenland began.
So no, antarctica is not melting by any stretch of the imagination. Greenland is but incredibly slowly.
