RollingThunder
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....as a janitor?I spent 3 yrs in Earth Resource Satellite image processing....
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....as a janitor?I spent 3 yrs in Earth Resource Satellite image processing....
What we are watching is a very large change in the albedo of the earth in four months of the summer. The ice reflects 90% of the sunlight, the water absorbs 90% of the sunlight. And then, as the water warms, it melts more ice.
It looks like we will have an essentially ice free Arctic Ocean around 2015, almost certainly by 2020. This was not supposed to happen before 2100. While the temperatures are not quite as high as the models have predicted, the effects are far greater than what has been predicted. From the cryosphere to the weather patterns, the sensitivity of systems of this planet seem to be far greater than most thought.
Now we are still waiting to find out what the amount of outgassing of the CH4 clathrates will be this summer.