Scientists Are Alarmed

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1. Morgan Wright says:

   September 19, 2023 at 1:26 am

   Zinlun Zhang, in 2006, gave us the following convoluted logic about how an increase in sea ice is caused by a decrease in sea ice:

   “An increase in surface air temperature and downward longwave radiation results in an increase in the upper-ocean temperature and a decrease in sea ice growth, leading to a decrease in salt rejection from ice, in the upper-ocean salinity, and in the upper-ocean density. The reduced salt rejection and upper-ocean density and the enhanced thermohaline stratification tend to suppress convective overturning, leading to a decrease in the upward ocean heat transport and the ocean heat flux available to melt sea ice. The ice melting from ocean heat flux decreases faster than the ice growth does in the weakly stratified Southern Ocean, leading to an increase in the net ice production and hence an increase in sea ice mass.”

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