Billy_Bob
Diamond Member
Skooks- your logic is failing you. One season of warming conditions and storms can flush out a lot of the multi-year ice. By definition it takes years to rebuild it.
But I get your point. A change in prevailing conditions can easily lead to more ice.
Yep.....but Ian.....look at the ice expanse in 2012 compared to 2013.......significant increase in ice area in just one year.
there are big swings every year. I am not sure why people fixate on minimums and maximums at the expense of looking at the overall picture.
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GLOBAL albedo % and sea ice cover have more to do with heat retention and reflection than the snow itself. The area affected will have long reaching effects on other global systems as well. The fact that one hemisphere has a low ice volume is important to that hemispheres overall climate but the earth remains in balance despite CO2 levels which are far lower than the global mean over the last 450 million years of approximately 1200ppm. Yet some how our addition of 120ppm (which can not be confirmed as 'only' caused by man) has little or no effect when we look at the empirical evidence. Recent studies show that CO2 may infact be a negative forcing, not a positive one and that is why the alarmists refuse to acknowledge them.