On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:31:06 +0100
Joe Egginton wrote:

On 23/09/2014 08:52, Graham P Davis wrote:
Although _scientific_ discussion of climate change has long been
allowed for in this group's constitution, I realise that some
people are bored by it and that is why I prefix the title with
"[CC]" in the same way that "[WR]" and "[OBS]" were introduced so
that such threads could be filtered out by uninterested parties.

Any road up, here's the link:

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/20...nimum-reached/


WHY is the arctic shrinking and the antarctic growing?

It's getting warmer.

Arctic sea and land ice is melting. Any fresh water from melting land
ice is quickly lost from the area, carried south and mixed with
warmer, saline water.

Antarctic land ice is melting. Increased fresh water largely remains
within Antarctic waters, circling eastwards, making formation of sea-ice
easier.

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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks. Mail: 'newsman' not 'newsboy'.
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they're open". -
Lord Dewar (1864-1930)