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8. Probably. It's contributing to a lot of acrctic sea ice melt, as well.

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 10:07 PM

Jul 2012

The question is about recovery though, it's always about recovery, and something like this is going to have feedbacks.

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Ice melt found across 97 percent of Greenland, satellites show [View all] IDemo Jul 2012 OP

If this is true, this very scary. longship Jul 2012 #1

57% transitioned to melt over four days? phantom power Jul 2012 #2

We should ban ice melt. liberal N proud Jul 2012 #3

and it's not even August yet proud patriot Jul 2012 #4

Jet stream movement. ? dipsydoodle Jul 2012 #5

Probably. It's contributing to a lot of acrctic sea ice melt, as well. joshcryer Jul 2012 #8

From the limited amount I understand dipsydoodle Jul 2012 #10

Albedo change is my greatest concern. joshcryer Jul 2012 #11

Cascades are, by their nature, unpredictable pscot Jul 2012 #12

It's a worst case scenario that no model predicted Nederland Jul 2012 #14

Yeah, they underestimate. joshcryer Jul 2012 #15

They under estimate some things and over estimate others. Nederland Jul 2012 #16

I just noticed that bit too dipsydoodle Jul 2012 #7

I saw elsewhere that this doesn't occur like clockwork... truebrit71 Jul 2012 #17

NASA Release OKIsItJustMe Jul 2012 #9

This should be a the top story on the news flamingdem Jul 2012 #13