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Environment & Energy

joshcryer

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9. I think it's significant, however, it will be displaced by the albedo change.

Reply to pscot (Reply #6)

Mon Feb 27, 2012, 09:40 PM

Feb 2012

I think the cooler winters are due to the melting. We do know that Greenland loss its ice sheet in under a century, and that was with natural processes.

I expect a significant acceleration once the sea ice is mostly gone. It's going to be quite interesting.

And we'll live to see it.

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NASA: Earth Is Losing Half A Trillion Tons Of Ice A Year [View all] kristopher Feb 2012 OP

That can't be good. /nt yardwork Feb 2012 #1

Thanks for this. I've been looking for recent GRACE measurements. Damn capitalism. joshcryer Feb 2012 #2

Per comments, here's a graphic of the Greenland and Antarctic losses: joshcryer Feb 2012 #3

Skeptical Science goes deeper: Satellites find over 500 billion tons of land ice melting worldwide joshcryer Feb 2012 #4

Scientific reticence and sea level rise joshcryer Feb 2012 #5

How much heat does half a trillion tons of ice-melt absorb? pscot Feb 2012 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author GliderGuider Feb 2012 #7

1.67*10^17 joules. GliderGuider Feb 2012 #8

I think it's significant, however, it will be displaced by the albedo change. joshcryer Feb 2012 #9