Arctic Sea Ice Loss
By Jonathan - Posted on October 15th, 2007
Following up on Haley's discussion last night of the rapid melting of arctic sea ice, here is a link to a blog post highlighting how the ice melt is happening much faster than models have predicted:
(JS, beware, it's from the Daily Kos...don't explore other parts of the site unless you want to risk a coronary)
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JM,
Sticking with the "sun as culprit" theme. I wonder if polar ice loss is especially indicative of a solar effect. My earlier post cited scientific studies of other locations, some of which had increases in ice coverage. Thus ice loss is not uniform as one might expect in the case of an atmospheric cause.
I'm thinking of the magnetosphere and the field lines directing charged particles (higher energy particles) to the poles.
Would be nice if our resident physicist would grace us with a comment, Bob?
js