Sea Ice Disappears As It Builds Up!
By Paul Homewood
ICE-STRANDED EXPLORERS’ MESSAGE:
A statement from the Australasian Antarctic Expedition:
We’re stuck in our own experiment. We came to Antarctica to study how one of the biggest icebergs in the world has altered the system by trapping ice. We followed Sir Douglas Mawson’s footsteps into Commonwealth Bay, and are now ourselves trapped by ice surrounding our ship.
Sea ice is disappearing due to climate change, but here ice is building up. We have found this has changed the system on many levels. The increase in sea ice has freshened the seawater below, so much so that you can almost drink it. This change will have impacts on the deep ocean circulation.
Underwater, forests of algae are dying as sea-ice blocks the light.
Apparently, increasing sea ice is good, except when it is bad!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
I’m puzzled by their contradiction.
If, as they state, “Underwater, forests of algae are dying as sea-ice blocks the light.”
Then the consequence of their opening statement “Sea ice is disappearing due to climate change…” is that forests of algae must be expanding.
“The increase in sea ice has freshened the seawater below, so much so that you can almost drink it.” Why would sea ice formation freshen the water below? Correct me if I am wrong, but the increasing salinity caused by freezing, and evaporation, drives the formation of deep water. Whoever wrote the Wikipedia page about thermohaline circulation thinks so too.
Ed,
You need to get with the program – these folks are graduates of the school of post-normal science. Every thing you think you know is wrong. They are setting up re-education camps for people like us. Maybe we’ll get sent to the same one. I think they start with ice is salty, the ocean is fresh, and the sky is whatever color you want it to be.
Let me see if i understand.
When their preconceived notions or climate religion is challenged by reality…they redefine reality, but don’t admit they’ve done so.,,even to themselves?
Back to that pesky Antarctic sea-ice – how is more ice consistent with a world super-heating from Man-Made CO2; the deadly heat-trapping gas? Answer: It’s not.
As far as “fragile ecosystems” the Antarctic is showing the uglier side of fragile to our intrepid explorers. Hope they learn something. But I’m not holding my breath.
Ed permalink
December 30, 2013 12:19 am
“The increase in sea ice has freshened the seawater below, so much so that you can almost drink it.” Why would sea ice formation freshen the water below? Correct me if I am wrong,
The brrrrine squoze out of new ice falls to the sea-floor to begin its long path around the globe, and fresh water from any melting floats. So it depends what they mean by “below”. At the waterline?