[mrbig]

Northpole melting to fast....

With a meltoff on the northpole being increased its pullin more warm water up north and increasingly more cold water down towards the lower south atlantic causing freakish weather anomalies in asia middle east..

Just mindblasting here... no fact behind this just simple thoughts

what ya think?

[Micki]

OK, now this may be my ignorance but, how does melting glacier pull warm water from elsewhere?
If anything, it has been suggested that the conveyor belt from the gulf may cease to bring warm water up north.

[jlw61]

It's obvious we've hit a critical desalinisation point.

[mrbig]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Micki', 'O')K, now this may be my ignorance but, how does melting glacier pull warm water from elsewhere?
If anything, it has been suggested that the conveyor belt from the gulf may cease to bring warm water up north.

[billg]

I think you are onto something Mr.Big. Check out page 43 of the Record Ice Loss in the Arctic thread...see warning from German scientists...it appears the tipping point has been reached.

[Tanada]

At this point melting at the North pole is predominantly floating sea ice, not glacier melt. If you melt the sea ice earlier in the season more of it is evaporated under the 24 hour summer sun which leaves a surface void which can POTENTIALLY draw surface waters from the Atlantic/Norwegian Sea further north.

Agree with Billg, read the ice loss thread it has a lot of data and even more speculation as to what might happen in it.