Posted on 03/16/2025 12:26:25 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
"The Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else on the planet, so the question we’re trying to ask here is: Is the Arctic going to change fast, or really fast?"
NASA's most ambitious Arctic voyage to date has revealed surprisingly high concentrations of ice particles in clouds over Greenland, a clue that may help explain why Arctic ice is melting even faster than predicted.
"The Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else on the planet, so the question we're trying to ask here is: Is the Arctic going to change fast — or really fast?" Patrick Taylor, the deputy science lead for the mission known as ARCSIX, for Arctic Radiation Cloud Aerosol Surface Interaction Experiment, told Space.com.
This bold mission to one of the world's most forbidding regions involved sending a small fleet of instrument-laden planes, including a NASA C-130 and a P-3 Orion, to dart through Arctic clouds and drop buoys into gaps in iceberg-laden waters below. While agency scientists are still studying the data, which was collected last summer, they say it's already clear that dust from Greenland's increasingly exposed landmass is melting vulnerable sea ice toward northern parts of the globe.
The ARCSIX plane flew in the summer of 2024, from May until July 25, when seasonal sea ice melt was at its height. The team expected to find ice with a thickness of about 11.5 feet (3.5 meters); instead, they saw a thickness of just 7.2 feet (2.2 meters). "It’s alluding to the fact that this thicker sea ice north of Greenland is not as sustainable as it once was," Linette Boisvert, the ARCSIX cryosphere lead, told Space.com.
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Dust?
Buy a can of Lemon Pledge.
No. Or, more exactly, yes - the Arctic Ocean Sea Ice is less now than when measurements began in Nov 1978. And the cause of that loss is because of dust.
But. Not Greenland dust
The far more likely cause is dust from Communist China, released from their unfiltered exhausts and smokestackscas the drove their economy up more than ten times between 1992 and 2008. Emissions have been more or less constant since 2010 - 2012, and Arctic Sea Ice Extents have NOT DECLINED since 2010 - 2012 winter season.
And, Sawdust has been declared “ a known carcinogen” by the Imperial State of California.
One of the issues is China’s increased coal burning spewing carbon black into the atmosphere that precipitates onto the arctic ice pack.
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Or from India....
https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2010/02/03/black-carbon-himalayan-glaciers/
The Obama-inspired “thrill” up Chrissy’s leg? (Ewww.)
Ah, the old ‘artic ice melting’ ploy.
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