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Harold Brooks · December 14th 07, 09:04 PM posted to uk.sci.weather

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On Dec 14, 6:23 pm, "Will Hand" wrote:

I'm not disputing the Arctic has warmed a lot either

I am.

Don't you mean it's got hotter?

The thermo-haline physics of the place will ensure a pretty constant
temperature average until almost all of the ice has gone.

If it doesn't, there is something wrong with the data presented.

Or there's something wrong with your understanding of the problem. It's
not a discussion of the ocean temperature, it's the air temperature.
You might be able to make an argument that there's an upper limit on the
average air temperature over the sea ice when ice is present, but the
temperature could be much colder than freezing and could have increased
dramatically without even reaching 0 C.

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Harold Brooks