Debunked: No evidence emissions caused Greenland glacier collapse

Hey everyone. Steve Milloy here. In September 2023, unusual seismic waves were detected for nine consecutive days at scientific stations around the world. A study published this week in the journal Science reports that the seismic event was triggered by a glacier collapse that started a massive landslide and avalanche causing a tsunami. Rock and ice enough to fill 10,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools ran for a mile at speeds up to 47 meters per second, plunging into the Dickson Fjord in eastern Greenland.
And of course, the researchers blamed the glacier collapse on global warming and by implication, emissions. But are emissions or even global warming, regardless of the cause, to blame? Here’s a map of Greenland, showing Dickson Fjord and the two closest temperature stations north and south of the fjord, sort of equidistant from the fjord.
If you look at the average temperature trend at the southern station at Tasiilaq, you see that the present average temperature is about zero degrees Celsius. It’s actually been cooling there recently and is even cooler now than it was from the 1920s through the 1940s. Dickson fjord is about 600 miles north of Tasiilaq and that is not in a direction of warmth.
If you look at the average temperature trend at the northern station at Danmarkshavn you see that while it’s been warming since the 1980s, even at the warmest point the averge temperature was minus nine degrees Celsius. Since Tsaiilaq and Danmarkshavn are about the same distance from Dickson Fjord, let’s say that the average temperature where the glacier collapse happened is about minus four or five degrees Celsius. That is still below zero and I don’t see any particularly warming occurring.
Here are some images from the study showing the glacier in question along the trail of the landslide. There’s thinning but there’s also thickening, which is not a characteristic of global warming. While these are merely my musings on the event, the researchers themselves present absolutely no evidence that global warming or emissions had anything to do with what happened. They just assume that since the glacier collapsed, it must have been all the cheeseburgers we’ve been eating. And I’m sorry, but convenient assumptions are just not science.
One last point, September 2023 was smack dab in the middle of the El Nino that caused the warming spike of the past year. Past the fact that El Ninos have nothing to do with emissions, El Ninos reportedly actually reduce warming in Greenland. Moreover, although the past year is often called the “hottest year ever”, no one told Greenland or the rest of the Arctic that. There was no dramatic warming in the Arctic last year.
My only explanation for what happened is just the mysteries of geology. Congrats to the researchers for figuring out the mechanics of what was behind the seismic activity. But shame on them for politicizing their findings with naked assumption. There is certainly no scientific evidence that emissions had anything to do with the nine day rumble heard around the world. Stay up with the latest on the climate hoax. Follow me on X at @JunkScience and at my web site JunkScience.com. Thanks for watching.