arctic ice ignores denier demands that it stop melting
Kelly Bert Manning
cover is currently below 2007 levels for this time of year.
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_stddev_timeseries.png
In addition there is less thick multi-year ice. Thin 1st year ice
is more likely to melt to nthing but water than 20 meter pressure
ridge ice was.
Last month deniers were almost trampling each other trying to
be the first to spread the word that arctic ice had "recovered".
Odd that they don't seem as keen to rush out with retractions,
admitting that they got confused about the difference between
square meters of ice and cubic meters of ice.
Deniers were told that thick, multi year and multi meter thick
ice has been melting away and not being replaced. Their response
was to claim that thickness doesn't matter. Well, now they have
no excuse for repeating that claim. Thin ice vanishes faster
once melt starts. The past month has demonstrated that, big time.
The thickness of arctic ice is the major factor in determining
how fast it melts. Whatever the temperature thick ice takes
longer to melt away completely once the melt season start.
Thin ice melts away faster, leaving open dark water to absorb
the 24 hour sun of summer in the arctic.
olde.sault
wrote:
> According to the USA National Ice and Snow Data Center arctic ice
> cover is currently below 2007 levels for this time of year.
>
>
> In addition there is less thick multi-year ice. Thin 1st year ice
> is more likely to melt to nthing but water than 20 meter pressure
> ridge ice was.
>
> Last month deniers were almost trampling each other trying to
> be the first to spread the word that arctic ice had "recovered".
>
> Odd that they don't seem as keen to rush out with retractions,
> admitting that they got confused about the difference between
> square meters of ice and cubic meters of ice.
>
> Deniers were told that thick, multi year and multi meter thick
> ice has been melting away and not being replaced. Their response
> was to claim that thickness doesn't matter. Well, now they have
> no excuse for repeating that claim. Thin ice vanishes faster
> once melt starts. The past month has demonstrated that, big time.
>
> The thickness of arctic ice is the major factor in determining
> how fast it melts. Whatever the temperature thick ice takes
> longer to melt away completely once the melt season start.
>
> Thin ice melts away faster, leaving open dark water to absorb
> the 24 hour sun of summer in the arctic.
Your brains need defrosting.
If some parts of arctic ice is melting, other parts are freezing
solid; while rain is drowning native animals are dying from thirst
over them there hills.
That is how the world always operated and little that mere mortals can
do about it but build warmer climate-suitable houses and dam water in
wet season.
OS