Your albedo change represents a value of about 0.17 W / m ^ 2, which if correct, would make Arctic sea ice reduction in recent years potentially a major contributor to ongoing imbalances. (judithcurry.com)
This correlates with the general speed of seasonal ice reduction for the entire Arctic during July 2008 and 2007 and earlier as published on the NSIDC website. (searcharcticscience.org)
Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, told a conference on Arctic sea ice reduction last week that a growing number of studies suggest the melting Arctic is affecting the source of these patterns: the jet stream. (newscientist.com)