Posted on 08/18/2024 9:33:23 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Picture of ice floating
Researchers raised concerns after discovering sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic is losing its cooling powers, per an article published on earth.com. After analyzing satellite images from a 43-year span, scientists at the University of Michigan revealed the devastating impact of rising global temperatures.
What's happening? A group of scientists compared satellite measurements of cloud cover and solar radiation reflected by sea ice from 1980 through 2023.
They found that the cooling power of sea ice is not as strong as it used to be. According to the findings, Arctic sea ice has lost about a quarter of its cooling power since 1980.
Warming temperatures and increasing rainfall have both contributed to the decrease in the ice's cooling powers, according to the researchers. On top of melting and shrinking in size, the sea ice is also becoming less reflective.
"The changes to Antarctic sea ice since 2016 boost the warming feedback from sea ice loss by 40 percent," study author Alisher Duspayev told earth.com. "By not accounting for this change in the radiative effect of sea ice in Antarctica, we could be missing a considerable part of the total global energy absorption."
Why is sea ice's cooling power important? Sea ice plays an integral role in balancing the Earth's temperature. When the sun's rays reflect off of the surface and back into space, it creates a cooling effect on the planet. Without this, temperatures will continue to rise.
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He was wearing platform shoes.
NOT Trump Supporters? Oh Noes! lol
Why are they even bringing this up???
The science is SETTLED you know. No more questions or inconvenient facts and info allowed.
Ice is no longer cold. Brilliant!
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Only woke leftists could make up such drivel.
HOT ICE ALERT! 🔥
The media is losing its persuasive powers.
Well that was during the "Coming Ice Age" period. Don't ya remember?
Nope, sandwiches require bread, which requires wheat, which requires farming. NO FARMING.
So sandwiches are right out.
You will eat zee bugz, plain on a plate, straight up, no chaser.
Temperature records are breaking all over Australia, but the records being broken are the COLD temperature records.
Meanwhile, the Globull Cooling, Globull Warming, Climate Change, Climate Crisis Hoax continues. As Rush often points out, all of the Globull ‘predictions’ are from computer models. Garbage In Garbage Out (GIGO). There is a VERY LARGE Ball of heat and light that most of us call the Sun. No computer model includes the massive fluctuations of the Sun. Clouds are also hard to compute.
I HIGHLY recommend the book State of Fear by Michael Crichton. With a little bit of fiction, and a great deal of facts, articles, etc, it completely explains the Hoax.
Only a powerful massive government and elimination of personal freedom and property can save us now. This time they really mean it.
Thanks to global warming the Arctic Penguins have vanished....
science....
The University of Michigan should stop using petroleum products.
More windmills. More dead birds. More dependence on China.
I remember the mid 1970s when there were plans to mine coal, grind it to dust, mix it with oil and spray it on the Ice Fields to increase melting and stop THE COMING ICE AGE! which was all the rage back then.
What, are they saying that ice isn’t cold?
Or maybe ice is getting warmer?
What is the point that is trying to be made here?
I fell pretty safe not believing a word of this.
No true scientist “sounds an alarm”...
Scientists do research, beg for grants, and publish results...
At least that’s what they did in the old days (pre-1970s) when scientific progress was amazing...
It’s called albedo and Juliana didn’t even mention the word.
Prior to 1980, the media was trying to convince us that we were all going to freeze to death with the coming ice age.
Then in 1980, Reagan got elected and he started on his campaign to melt the ice caps. Then to make life on the planet worse, GW Bush invented a hurricane directional device to steer hurricanes into heavily democrat areas.
And there are people in the US who believe this.
And they vote
And they reproduce.
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