Melt may explain Antarctica's sea ice expansion

BBC News Science and Enviroment ^ | April 1st 2013

[Mad Dawgg]

Climate change is expanding Antarctica's sea ice, according to a scientific study in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The paradoxical phenomenon is thought to be caused by relatively cold plumes of fresh water derived from melting beneath the Antarctic ice shelves.

This melt water has a relatively low density, so it accumulates in the top layer of the ocean.

The cool surface waters then re-freeze more easily during Autumn and Winter.

This explains the observed peak in sea ice during these seasons, a team from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) in De Bilt says in its peer-reviewed paper.

[Mad Dawgg]

More Enviromental Blather from the denizens in the Ministry of "Truth"...

Your calender may show 2013, but we are living 1984!

[RingerSIX]

Epicycle upon epicycle.

[Steely Tom]

The paradoxical phenomenon is thought to be caused by ...

Funny. April Fools, I'm guessing.

[FlingWingFlyer]

There is MORE ice because the ice is MELTING. This is known as the Brooklyn Bridge Theory in the environmental government grant circles.

[Mr. K]

"Climate change is ..."

You can stop reading right there. There is nothing intelligent to follow, and you will be stupider for having read it.

[Iron Munro]

[JohnBrowdie]

they are making this up as they go along.

[6ppc]

Really grasping at straws aren’t they!!!

[Cincinatus]

Turtles all the way down...

[Mad Dawgg]

"Really grasping at straws aren’t they!!!"

You know there is a super secret memo somewhere deep in the bowels of the Ministry of Truth that says: "Shit, Google Earth has screwed us. Any internet jackweed can measure the arctic ice now. Quick we need a theory to explain why the ice is expanding or we all lose our jobs!"

[preacher]

Up is down. Black is white. Man-made climate change is real.

[Don W]

Uhm, fresh water is LESS dense than salt. It would float on top.

[bmwcyle]

It is like a child explaining how something got broken.

[Rennes Templar]

In other words, warm is cold.

[Izzy Dunne]

Uhm, fresh water is LESS dense than salt. It would float on top.

That's exactly what the third sentence of the summary says.

[kidd]

If the United States can spend its way to prosperity, and giving guns to violent Mexican drug gangs reduces violence, then
of course there is more ice because the ice is melting.

[ScottfromNJ]

“Climate change is expanding Antarctica’s sea ice, according to a scientific study in the journal Nature Geoscience.”

Gotta hedge your bets.

[American in Israel]

I must be old, I remember when climate change was called weather.

[American in Israel]

That's exactly what the third sentence of the summary says.

Only difference is that on Free Republic the understanding is free, but in Goobermint circles that study cost Millions!

[saleman]

“The study in Nature Geoscience also asserts that the cool melt water layer may limit the amount of water sucked from the oceans that falls as snow on Antarctica. Cold air can hold less moisture than warm air.”

Warning!!!! Do not read the article!!! Your IQ WILL fall and you will become dizzy and may faint causing possible injury or death!!

The above excerpt is from the “peer review paper”. I'm not sure what it means. Looks like to me that because of “global warming”, the Antarctic is getting less snow. Because it's colder? Someone please help....