While the Arctic Ocean is melting at record rates, so is the Greenland Ice Sheet (click here) and for the same reasons. There is absolutely no reason to 'study' further information regarding the melting as alluded to by NASA Scientists in the film clip, whom under Bush, never come out and say anything conclusive, except for perhaps Jim Hansen at Goddard Labs. The reason for the ice melt is exactly the winds. The winds I have noted on this blog for years, called vortexes, heat transfer vortexes.
The scientists at NASA should be stating what they believe along with their reporting and they are not. They are limited to reporting facts without conclusions. Discussion and conclusions are an accepted and long time demanded part of any scientific paper, the NASA scientists for years now limit their information to the public as facts and the public is left to draw conclusions. The papers coming out of NASA to the public are 'academically' incomplete.
Quite possibly internal documents at NASA and NOAA would reveal the conclusions that lack in the material availed to the public. Those documents might be attained through The Freedom of Information Act. It would be interesting to pursue and would open a new door for THE USA SCIENTISTS now trapped in never, never land along with the inhibition of 'correctly' released documents.
Arctic Ocean Circulation - It enters on the left and slowly, or at least it used to be slowly circulates to the right. In at the narrows between Alaska and Russia and out between Canada and Greenland and Europe and Iceland, past Greenland.
Three contour lines appear on this image. The red line is the 2007 minimum, as of September 15, about the same time the record low was reached, and it almost exactly fits the sea ice observed by AMSR-E. The green line indicates the 2005 minimum, the previous record low. The yellow line indicates the median minimum from 1979 to 2000.
Video (click here)
This is the graphic that accompanies the article by NASA Earth Observatory. I can only hope to relay the 'obvious' to those that may be thinking "At least there is still ice in the Arctic Ocean." There is always danger to making the public aware of some realities that haven't occurred to them as it also makes aware those that would like to see the demise of the Arctic Ocean for reasons of 'wealth' rather than 'life.' And I'll explain the idea of planet demise as I view it as well in a minute.
The map is oddly oriented and I don't believe there is anything sinister in that, it's just the way NASA placed the map. It was obviously a view of the current ocean opposed to the previous oceans. The Arctic Ocean is in the center, North America, Canada specifically on the left while Europe and Asia is to the right of the image.
It is sometimes strange to realize a huge ice ocean can have a circulation, but it does and it is easily discerned in the map above. Now, it's easy to come to understand that ice floats on water, especially ocean water, because ice even in the ocean is 'fresh water' with less density than salt water. Ice floats in most beverages in a glass because it has different molecular structure even though it is water, it is solid water and between atoms of H2O in the solid state there is space. That space has no density, hence ice is lighter per cubic centimeter than water.
So realize while looking at this image produced by NASA that the current 'ice mass' still called The Arctic Ocean is at the 'exit' side of the ocean. The ice mass is at the boundaries along the 'wider' exit side of Canada, Greenland, Europe and Iceland. That is a very somber reality. This year scientists reporting on this profound ice loss noted that sea ice was now making it's way out of the Arctic Ocean and into the Atlantic Ocean in large amounts. As a matter of fact the sea ice was floating out of the Arctic Circle in record amounts.
At this point I want to call attention to the fact there is a 'warming' current noted in the drawing of the Arctic Ocean circulation above. It is noted as an orange arrow in the right margin of the picture. It is headed toward the Arctic Circle. That arrow indicates the residual circulation into the Arctic Circle of the Gulf Current. The Gulf Current visits the North Atlantic and helps warm England. It also proceeds somewhat to the north and the Arctic Circle which is normal to some extent. So therefore, the Arctic Ocean is compromised by it's lack of frozen mass and the increased sea ice loss into the North Atlantic directly into the path of The Gulf Current.
Realizing there is 'sluffing' of ice into the North Atlantic brings to mind the fact the most dense water to the Atlantic Ocean Basin comes off the Arctic Ocean. This dense subaquatic waterfall into the North Atlantic is the source to the deep water currents known as "The Ocean Conveyor Belt" (click here).
In examing the 'placement' of the current ice mass at the exit to the Arctic Ocean circulation and realizing significant amounts of sea ice are floating PAST the coastlines of Greenland which is also melting as no surprise to warmer waters now circulating closer to the Greenland Ice Sheet, it is a logical conclusion to state, WHEN the Arctic Ocean Ice Mass finally losses enough of it's size, it will literally break up and within hours and certainly in less than a week, the entire ice mass will be floating 'very temporarily' in the Atlantic Ocean until it finally melts. I believe that event is as soon as two years. Perhaps. Less.
The reason that is such a very bad idea is because Earth will have lost it's thermostat. It will no longer have a benevolent environment created by it's much cooler oceans. The reason humans and any biotic life can live on Earth is because the polar regions wax and wane in ice formations to cool the troposphere. That ability will have been destroyed when the last of the 'large' ice masses are gone and the oceans only have the ability to continue to heat and while some would say the oceans will take a long time to heat. Not so. The surface waters of the ocean are a 'layer' all of itself and does not readily mix with the lower layers of ocean waters. The surface layer of ocean is currently what brings benevolent temperatures to any land mass. The ocean conveyer belt will lose it's contribution from the Arctic Ocean as well.
When I first noted there were vortexes in the troposphere over the North Atlantic and North Pacific on October 4, 2002, THE WINDS the NASA scientists refer to inconclusively, I calculated it would be about five years before humans would profoundly regret their denial of Human Induced Global Warming. I was right about the 'concept' of regret, I just don't know if nations actually do regret it yet.
At the time I made testimony to The New Source Review regarding Human Induced Global Warming in April and May of 2003, I noted the 'excuse' by some scientists to justify the continued emissions of carbon dioxide was an ancient Earth event called "Younger Dryas (click here)." I also noted at the time, humans were not among the species on Earth in number they are now AND the ability of Earth to continue to heat was limited by the natural mechanisms of Earth to emit CO2. Those natural mechanisms have been eliminated as the sole source of CO2 and replaced with continuous emissions by a nation fully capable of reversing it's pollution while other countries continue to struggle to do so.
I don't care anymore what some might say or think regarding my statements, I have been correct about my estimations and I refuse to be silent of what I believe as an American citizen in demand of action by this government rather than a government oppressed by pandering to economics that are destroying the future of Earth to be benevolent to generations to come. It's an outrage this is the condition of the Arctic Ocean and an even greater outrage so many have consented to it.
