--- On Sun, 7/12/09, Rich Kulawiec <[email protected]> wrote: > BTW, I've been doing some reading on sea ice breakup > mechanisms -- some of which are well understood, some of which are > partially understood -- and one of the things that's becoming clear > is that cracking seems to have far more of an accelerative effect > than previously thought. In 2001, the IPCC said that major > ice retreat would probably not occur before 2100. In 2007, some > of the folks at NOAA said that by 2050, summer ice would be gone. > And in 2008, an NSDIC report stated that sumer ice could be gone by > 2030: Arctic amplification (which wasn't expected to kick in for another > decade) has pushed the melt cycle past the tipping point.
This part is something I experimented with for seven years. It shouldn't come as any surprise that darkening bright white ice accelerates melting, and there's nothing like cracks and resultant seepage to do the trick. (first ice breakage - fyi, "Ernst" is my middle name and the narrator is my doofus friend Rob Palmer ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqlg7cvvGxo (last ice breakage) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgW9BOr5M_w Anton - how this migrated to funsec I have no idea, but now that it has why fight it? -chris _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
