Uunartok-Kekertak , also Uunartok-Kekertok ( grenl . Uunartoq Qeqertoq , Russian. Island of Warming ) - an uninhabited island in the east of Greenland in the commune of Sermersawok . Until 2005, it was considered a peninsula, while melted ice did not reveal the strait [1] .
| Uunartok-Kekertak | |
|---|---|
| grenl. Uunartoq Qeqertoq | |
 Photo of 2006. The opened strait "turned" the peninsula into an island | |
| Specifications | |
| Population | 0 pax |
| Location | |
| Water area | Greenland Sea |
| A country |
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| Region | Sermersawok |
In September 2005, an American researcher discovered that the peninsula, which was connected to the ice back in 2002, became an island [2] . Prior to this, a thick layer of ice did not allow one to detect water and understand that the researchers were faced with an island, not a peninsula [3] . It is believed that the cause of this "transformation" was global warming .
The island has the shape of the letter W , turned by teeth to the north. The length of the "base" is about 5.5 km, the length of the "teeth" is 2-3 km [4] .
After Schmitt reported on a new island [5] , a climatologist and skeptic of the theory of global warming entered into controversy, who stated that this island could be observed back in the 1950s and that, accordingly, global warming here nothing to do with it. Michaels provided a map of the early 1950s from Arctic Riviera (1957) by Ernst Hofer, on which Warming Island is visible [6] , but Schmitt stated that this map was not accurate, pointing to other inaccuracies of this map regarding well-studied objects in the region [ 1] . However, photo evidence of the correctness of one or the other opponent was not found.
The island was marked in the 13th edition of the 2011] [7] , which is notorious for the fact that in it the Greenland ice sheet was depicted having lost 15% of its area in 12 years. In response, the US indicated to the editors of the atlas that if Greenland really lost that amount of ice, the level of the oceans would rise by a meter, which is not observed. Perhaps the error is due to the fact that the compilers of the atlas used a map showing only the thickest sections of the ice sheet [8] .
See also
- List of Greenland Islands
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Andrew Revkin. Arctic Explorer Rebuts 'Warming Island' Critique on dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com , April 28, 2008
- ↑ Ethan Todras-Whitehill. As Ice Recedes, Interest Surges on nytimes.com , December 9, 2007
- ↑ David Middleton. Warming Island: Just another Warmist myth ( wattsup ) at , September 16, 2011
- ↑ Ian Brown. Uunartoq Qeqertaq (Island Week 6 ) on googlesightseeing.com , November 22, 2011
- ↑ John Collins Rudolph. The Warming of Greenland on nytimes.com , January 16, 2007
- ↑ “Warming Island” - Another Global Warming Myth Exposed (link not available) . Date of treatment September 9, 2015. Archived December 12, 2008. (English) on worldclimatereport.com , March 31, 2008
- ↑ Max Eddie. New Atlas Shows Greenland With Fewer Glaciers, More Green at themarysue.com , September 16, 2011
- ↑ Sarah Reardon. Atlas Shrugged? Outraged Glaciologists Say Mappers Misrepresented Greenland Ice Melt at news.sciencemag.org , September 19, 2011
Links
- Landsat Gallery (English) on landsat.usgs.gov (you must click on the black box in the east of Greenland)
- A Voyage of Discovery to Warming Island, Greenland on betchartexpeditions.com