Due to global warming, larger and larger areas
of sea ice melt in the summer and when sea ice freezes over in the winter it is thinner and more reduced.
This powerful achievement will save thousands of lives a year and slow climate change by reducing pollution that
accelerates sea ice melt.
In summer
more sea ice melts, which leads to decreased albedo, a climate feedback that enhances the warming of both the open ocean water and the atmosphere directly above it.
It is already at the make - or - break point
for sea ice melt given a certain amount does melt and there is melt - ponds etc..
Because ice reflects most light and heat back into space, the exposed water will absorb more heat
as sea ice melts, and further add to the warming.
But
when sea ice melts, it exposes the darker surface of the underlying water, which absorbs solar energy.
Recently, however, ice - ocean «albedo feedback» has emerged as a key cause
for sea ice melt.
As
Arctic sea ice melts earlier each year, polar bears in some parts of Norway and Greenland are abandoning ice floes for dry land and their favorite meal — seals — for seabird eggs.
As Arctic
sea ice melts earlier and freezes later each year, polar bears have a limited amount of time to hunt their historically preferred prey — ringed seal pups — and must spend more time on land.
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I'm not sure how realistic that is; Doesn't the preponderance of
polar sea ice melting come from ocean heat, not radiation?
Was tracking the current
sea ice melt at the indispensable Arctic Sea Ice blog.
Could we be looking at any fairly abrupt changes to the jet stream, possibly triggered
by sea ice melting or stratospheric changes?
«With
increased sea ice melt, however, come more waves and wind, which creates more noise and makes it harder to track undersea vessels.»
States that the Arctic lower atmosphere has warmed more rapidly than that of the globe as a whole, and this has been accompanied by unprecedented sea ice melt
Arctic
sea ice melts in summer to very high latitudes, and gains melt ponds and polynaya over its full extent.
As a result of such
extensive sea ice melt, says the study, the jet stream, which has always been rather capricious, is behaving differently now.
A growing number of scientists disagreeing with IPCC flies in the face of a noticeably growing body of evidence absolutely negating all this talk with literally unprecedented Arctic
sea ice melting along with any Arctic glaciers or permafrost you can pick.
While this is logical in winter, when sea ice exists on the oceans and snow cover exists on land surfaces, it is not logical during the summer, when
seasonal sea ice melt exposes the open ocean, and when snow melt exposes land surface.
Albedo changes significantly in the summer when some 10 million km2 of
sea ice melts exposing low albedo, dark green, polar water.
16 Sea level rising by thermal expansion AND ice
melt Sea ice melting (Arctic and Antarctic) Glaciers melting worldwide Arctic and Antarctic Peninsula heating up fastest Melting on ice sheets is accelerating More severe weather (droughts, floods, storms, heat waves, hard freezes, etc.) Bottom line: These changes do not fit the natural patterns unless we add the effects of increased Greenhouse gasses Signs that global warming is underway