Warming hasn’t stalled.
Greenland ice mass is decreasing.
If you are saying the sun is the only driver of climate change I think we are done here.
Climate change trends aren’t in 4 year increments so I’ll stay current within reason.
Using the data that were available at the time (through 2012), the last climate report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that there had been no statistically significant increase in global surface temperature from 1998-2012.
Near zero. That is the furthest thing from a bell curve aka hockey stick.
Now from the Danish (DMI)...
2019 was a year with a high degree of melting of the Ice Sheet
The surface mass balance (SMB) is an expres-
sion of the isolated growth and melting of
the surface of the Ice Sheet. It is monitored
via actual measurements and computer
simulations. The Danish Meteorological Insti-
tute (DMI) performs daily simulations of how
much ice or water the Ice Sheet loses or ac-
cumulates. Based on these simulations, an
overall measurement of how the surface
mass balance develops across the entire Ice
Sheet is obtained (Fig. 1). At the end of the
season (31st August 2019), the net surface
mass balance was 169 Gt (one gigatonne
equals one billion tonnes, which corresponds
to one cubic kilometre of ice). This means
that this season returned the seventh lowest
result in terms of surface mass balance. It
also means that 9 of the 10 lowest results for
the surface mass balance – which have been
calculated since 1981 – have occurred during
the last 13 years.
In other words, 169 Gt more snow fell than
what melted and ran off into the sea.
average of 368 Gt. As a point of reference,
the lowest calculated SMB was only 38 Gt in
2012.
17 18 and 19 were all GIS years of gain.
Why is a sure thing flatlining and going backwards?