@Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.social
Post #2790697
2026-04-12 15:16 UTC
@PoLaRobs@fediscience.org I wonder how you feel about the theory of my former colleague Gene Domack (perhaps not his theory, but he was the first to share it with me) that increased meal from Antarctica will increase sea ice cover by freshening the surface waters around the peninsula and effectively raising ice's melting point.
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@PoLaRobs@fediscience.org 2026-04-12 16:29
@Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.social I think that theory has been the basis of several high profile papers. If there was any truth in it then sea ice extent west of the Peninsula and in the southern Bellingshausen Sea should have been increasing over the past few decades. In reality there has been a steady decline in sea-ice extent in these areas through the period of the satellite record, even while extent was steady or slightly increasing in other sectors up to 10 years ago.