Why does one polar circle, the Antarctic, have 9 times the ice of the other?

[LaDexter]

If you cannot answer that question, you know precisely nothing about Earth climate change...

 

[Hossfly]

If you cannot answer that question, you know precisely nothing about Earth climate change...

What is climate change? Is that like it's sunny and clear today but tomorrow it is supposed to rain like a cow pissing on a flat rock. As for your question I read that the Arctic natives have been selling massive amounts of ice to the Saudis.

 

[Zander]

Sigh......It must be because of my SUV and air conditioner.......

 

[LaDexter]

Hint -

90% of Earth ice is on land mass Antarctica
7% of Earth ice is on land mass Greenland

97% of Earth ice is on the two land masses closest to an Earth pole.... and land moves...

Try again please...

 

[LaDexter]

Another clue...

Air in the Antarctic Circle is, on average 50 F colder than the Arctic, and Antarctica puts 46 times the ice into the oceans than the Mississippi River dumps water in the Gulf, while the Arctic puts 5 times.

In other words, air that passes over the Antarctic cools 50 F more than air that passes over the Arctic, and the Antarctic dumps 9 times the ice into the oceans vs. the Arctic. The Antarctic cools Earth much more than the Arctic. All at the same time on the same planet with the same atmosphere with the same amount of CO2 in the atmosphere....

 

[Crick]

Could it possibly have something to do with the Antarctic CONTINENT on one end and the Arctic OCEAN at the other?

Just a tip for you. The Arctic doesn't "dump" ANY ice into the ocean. It's already there.

 

[Hossfly]

Another clue...

Air in the Antarctic Circle is, on average 50 F colder than the Arctic, and Antarctica puts 46 times the ice into the oceans than the Mississippi River dumps water in the Gulf, while the Arctic puts 5 times.

In other words, air that passes over the Antarctic cools 50 F more than air that passes over the Arctic, and the Antarctic dumps 9 times the ice into the oceans vs. the Arctic. The Antarctic cools Earth much more than the Arctic. All at the same time on the same planet with the same atmosphere with the same amount of CO2 in the atmosphere....

Hey, I just remembered! I know of about a half dozen people on this board who made it past the 3d grade. I am sure some of them got as far as junior high and studied about geology and stuff.

 

[LaDexter]

Could it possibly have something to do with the Antarctic CONTINENT on one end and the Arctic OCEAN at the other?

Just a tip for you. The Arctic doesn't "dump" ANY ice into the ocean. It's already there.

Indeed, that iceberg the Titanic hit, that came from the transporter on the Enterprise...

Get real. Greenland dumps a ton of icebergs into the ocean...

 

[Crick]

Then you should have said Greenland, not "the Arctic".

For that matter, in your discussion of the differences between the Arctic and the Antarctic, why did you make no mention that one was a continent surrounded by an ocean while the other was an ocean surrounded by continents? Did that wee point slip your mind?

 

[Old Rocks]

I believe that LaDexter is trying to get around to some kind of point. Maybe, in the coming years, he will get there.

 

[Olde Europe]

I believe that LaDexter is trying to get around to some kind of point. Maybe, in the coming years, he will get there.

Yep, he definitely is on to something:

"Why does one polar circle, the Antarctic, have 9 times the ice of the other?"​

Since he has to ask, according to his own criteria...

If you cannot answer that question, you know precisely nothing about Earth climate change...

... he realized he knows "precisely nothing about Earth climate change." I believe it's that "Know thy limitations" thing, a variant of "Know thyself" - Socrates, Delphi, and all that. He should be encouraged and supported, I say.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

This is going to be fun.

 

[skookerasbil]

Ladexter..........looks like you are causing heads to explode in here!!

These alarmist meatheads never want to talk about Antarctica.

 

[Old Rocks]

New NASA videos show stark ice loss from Earth's ice sheets - Carbon Brief

The biggest cause of ice loss is warmer water melting the ice shelves that protrude from the ice sheet over the ocean. As the ice shelves erode, they lose their buttressing effect and the glaciers stacked up behind them are free to flow into the ocean.

The Larsen-B ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula collapsed in 2002, releasing more than 3,200 square kilometres (1,250 square miles) of ice in the space of a month, say NASA scientists. Recent research suggests the Larsen-C ice shelf is at risk of following suit.

West Antarctica grabbed the headlines last year when scientists discovered glaciers in the Amundsen bay were already collapsing. The process was likely to be unstoppable, said scientists, potentially adding several metres to sea levels over the course of many centuries.

There is plenty that is of interest to talk about concerning Antarctica.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Yabutt, if you let people monkey with the data, they will say that the Antarctic "warmed" from -50F to -41.9F making it the warmest June EVAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!, Denier!!!! DEATH TO THE DENIERS!!! That's real science

 

[CrusaderFrank]

New NASA videos show stark ice loss from Earth's ice sheets - Carbon Brief

The biggest cause of ice loss is warmer water melting the ice shelves that protrude from the ice sheet over the ocean. As the ice shelves erode, they lose their buttressing effect and the glaciers stacked up behind them are free to flow into the ocean.

The Larsen-B ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula collapsed in 2002, releasing more than 3,200 square kilometres (1,250 square miles) of ice in the space of a month, say NASA scientists. Recent research suggests the Larsen-C ice shelf is at risk of following suit.

West Antarctica grabbed the headlines last year when scientists discovered glaciers in the Amundsen bay were already collapsing. The process was likely to be unstoppable, said scientists, potentially adding several metres to sea levels over the course of many centuries.

There is plenty that is of interest to talk about concerning Antarctica.

We need a box of rocks icon

 

[Crick]

Yabutt, if you let people monkey with the data, they will say that the Antarctic "warmed" from -50F to -41.9F making it the warmest June EVAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!, Denier!!!! DEATH TO THE DENIERS!!! That's real science

What makes you think anyone has "monkeyed" with the data? And is -41.9 not warmer than -50?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Yabutt, if you let people monkey with the data, they will say that the Antarctic "warmed" from -50F to -41.9F making it the warmest June EVAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!, Denier!!!! DEATH TO THE DENIERS!!! That's real science

What makes you think anyone has "monkeyed" with the data? And is -41.9 not warmer than -50?

How many repeatable scientific experiments can you point to that control all variables except for a variation in an atmospheric trace elements?

Is it still none?

 

[Crick]

Angstrom's. About ten million high school physics and chemistry class experiments since then.

And when are you going to post the repeatable laboratory PROOF that you're a human being?

Cause the evidence that you'e unteachable is just piling up and piling up...

 

[Two Thumbs]

If you cannot answer that question, you know precisely nothing about Earth climate change...

it's most likely a combination of the ice being on land and the gulf stream heading north.

the water around the arctic poles looks black and therefore absorbs sunlight

the arctic ice is in the water and has things living off of it that melt it


there's a bunch of reasons, none of them are more important than who pays who to cry that we are all going to die soon if we don't give more control to the worlds governments.