Arctic Sea ice melt Season 2017

[Rocky_Shorz]

Methane is 28 times worse than co2 on Global warming.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rB-PpJjqS7w

You know, all of the videos mention east coasts of Continents are experiencing rising tides, where West coasts seem all to be staying the same, one other part of expanding oceans, it could be accelerating the spin of the earth.

Earth spins to the East, if we went faster, even by a smidge, the water would shift towards the east coasts. Should melting glaciers speed us up, or slow us down?

[Hervé]

Methane bubbles?

... or pingos:

[GrayWolfBG]

Pingo's are an ice feature and so would be an odd thing to find growing in a region that is in meltdown!

The funnels, found across Yamal over recent years, were pushed as being collapsed pingo's but again they are a feature that herders did not see before a couple of years ago. I'd imagine nomads would have a pretty extensive knowledge of the lands they roam esp. any dangerous ( for man and beast!) features.

No matter. This summer will continue the rapid thaw of the region and may well be the one where we see our first 'methane burp' over the melt season proper. Methane , in the short term, is over 100 times more impacting than CO2. Over a 100 year period that drops to 26 times more powerful. Once it degrades it ends up as CO2 so its an gift that just keeps on giving!

March was the warmest ever recorded March across the Arctic circle so the melt Season is off to the worst possible start! With record low volume and record high temps what do we expect as an outcome?

Ice volume will peak this month so we will know what the new record low is but fag packet calcs tell us that an 'average' volume loss over summer will leave us with just 1,000 km3 of ice in the Arctic Basin!!! ...... and of course we can expect the return of the 'perfect melt storm' synoptic from this year onward.....

Since 07' I have been warning of the outcome of the return of the 07' synoptics as I feared it would drive us ice free come September. over this period I have seen the 'need' for a perfect melt storm to take all our ice recede as 'average' weather melt seasons now match the lows that 07' produced. A perfect melt storm would now just mean even longer with open water under sun.

Remember a 1cm cube of ice takes 70 calories to melt . A 1cm cube of water would warm 1c with 1 calorie of energy.