After reviewing Worldview images since feb 20, '20, and while taking into account that these are daily images of local noon, I only saw only ONE day of the last 36 in which a southerly or easterly wind was not blowing exported ice into individual bergs into oblivion in the relatively warm waters of the eastern GS.
The splitting of this ice into individual bergs greatly accelerates the melt process by depriving these ice chunks of brotherly chill and exposing all sides to relatively warm (>0C) water.
The massive and accelerated melting of Fram-exported ice will have a debilitating effect on the central ice mass's ability to fight against the enemy known as the heat of summer, especially with this event having happened so early in the season.
Frozen rivers often have an event when the ice breaks up and starts to flow downriver. The term escapes me, but were it not for the CAA's refrigerating effect, the import thru the Bering and export thru Fram straits made it seem that the entire arctic ice mass was ready to break up and just flow (I would hope that it stabilizes, but it may not if S/E wind directions continue over the GS).
With respect to all the great providers (there are so many) on this blog, the overall view I have concerning our ice is both exciting and horrifying.
It's kinda ironic that it is taking an acute virus scare for many people (nobody here) to stop and understand the great peril that Global Warming and a BOE represents. Because they are now stuck at home and only now have the time to recognize what happens when you're not nice to Mother Nature, it seems people have become so bored that they are reading. A great asset (reading) to those that don't want to repeat regretable, preventable histories of failures in the protection of said mother.
Anyone can make a gif for their own viewing of the GS (or anywhere else) over the last FORTY days on Worldview and be as horrified and yet excited as me.
I'm not exaggerating when I say that everywhere that I go in real life, as well as online, I try to enlighten others concerning the future through recalling the history of some wonder of nature that no longer exists. I am not shy. I am driven by a vision of my grandchildren's future in which a frozen arctic is only a memory, but i am not a doomsayer. I believe that thru education, our ability to progress as a species is enhanced and I am passionate about this subject.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here. Forgive me for my rant, Neven, and i hope this post wasn't OT or otherwise out of place. It was an effort at self-help by an individual with too good a memory. It was beneficial
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