NASA | Earth's Climate Checkup: Operation IceBridge Monitors Arctic

NASA scientists have just begun the most recent leg of the Operation IceBridge Mission, an unprecedented six-year mission to study the Earth's polar regions, not through the lens of a satellite, but from onboard an airplane. In fact, IceBridge is the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice ever flown.


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[abyssquick]

Thickness and density are different. Make that distinction. Ice can seem thicker but be less dense as older ice deteriorates.

[garith]

@toastsandwich
not necessarily, even though oceans are a significant carbon sink, their ability to absorb CO2 is affected by their temperature, the higher the temperature, the less gas that can stay in the water. This is of course ignoring the significant problem of ocean acidification.

[toastsandwich]

doesn't more ocean surface mean more co2 absorbed?

[garith]

@WakeUpWolfgang
global ice melt has been at least on a 30 year average decline, there was a 2 year case in that trend where it hit an all time low at the north pole and bounced back due to a short term cycle and continues to decline in line with the 30 year trend.

Climate change is an observable fact, anthropogenic climate change is a reasonable conclusion based upon an abundance of evidence

[truvelocity]

@WakeUpWolfgang See Greenman3610 channel and see why your comment is the obvious joke.