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You have to wonder what’s causing the melting in Lancaster Sound (between Baffin Island and Devon Island). Subterranean heat?
Maybe there is a current between the two bodies of water which makes the ice thinner.
I suppose it could be a case of the albedo effect: a stress crack opens up at the western end and the warmed water flowing west to east gradually melts out the Sound.
An interesting paper that may cover what you say is here –
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/JCLI-3224.1
One to watch – http://mainstreamlastfirst.com/
4-man row across the NW passage. Starts Jul 1st.
They’re gonna need motorised ski mobiles to drag their rowboats across the ice in July. Perhaps they should wait till September like all the Warm-Earthers are doing. Apparently the moons align then and the Great Pumpkin appears ……..or something.
Are you sure they are smart enough to wait? Every time I hear about these jokers, its ‘freezing’ this, and ‘going backwards’ that, and ‘froze to death’ in the ‘fast-warming’ Arctic…
Not much going on here.
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