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Huge Freshwater Bulge In Arctic Ocean
New submitter turkeyfish writes "UK scientists are reporting today in the journal Nature Geoscience that a huge bulge of freshwater is forming in the Western Arctic Ocean caused by a large gyre of freshwater. The gyre appears to indicate that the ice is becoming thin enough over the Arctic Ocean that the wind is beginning to affect the motion of water under the ice. A sudden release of this water or its emergence to the surface will greatly accelerate the melting of the remaining polar oceanic ice and likely alter oceanic circulation in the North Atlantic."
This is all rubbish! The planet is freezing up and we are approaching an ice age.
The fresh water can freeze faster than the salt water, so it will freeze back in a few months.
Do you have any scientific evidence that the globe was warmer during the MWP than it is now? From all I know it likely wasn't.
What back and forth? They have been "telling us so" for the last 20 years, and it still hasn't happened. With that kind of track record, your credibility is somewhat strained... Two things I know are that this is not the year the ice caps melt, and this is not the year of Linux on the desktop. (Ironically posted from a Linux desktop)