The team is in a panic over Arctic ice, and seem to believe that blowing a lot of hot air will make the ice melt.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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20th century Arctic sea ice melt (and Antarctic non-melt) – the influence of orbital variations :
http://journalofcosmology.com/JOC22/Steel_PPPIGW.pdf
Summary: The increase in mean global temperature over the past 150 years is generally
ascribed to human activities, in particular the rises in the atmospheric mixing ratios of carbon
dioxide and other greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution began. Whilst it is thought
that ice ages and interglacial periods are mainly initiated by multi-millennial variations in
Earth’s heliocentric orbit and obliquity, shorter-term orbital variations and consequent
observable climatic effects over decadal/centurial timescales have not been considered
significant causes of contemporary climate change compared to anthropogenic influences. Here
it is shown that the precession of perihelion occurring over a century substantially affects the
intra-annual variation of solar radiation influx at different locations, especially higher latitudes,
with northern and southern hemispheres being subject to contrasting insolation changes. This
north/south asymmetry has grown since perihelion was aligned with the winter solstice seven to
eight centuries ago, and must cause enhanced year-on-year springtime melting of Arctic (but not
Antarctic) ice and therefore feedback warming because increasing amounts of land and open sea
are denuded of high-albedo ice and snow across boreal summer and into autumn. The
accelerating sequence of insolation change now occurring as perihelion moves further into boreal
winter has not occurred previously during the Holocene and so would not have been observed
before by past or present civilisations. Reasons are given for the significance of this process
having been overlooked until now. This mechanism represents a supplementary – natural –
contribution to climate change in the present epoch and may even be the dominant fundamental
cause of global warming, although anthropogenic effects surely play a role too.
Cryosphere Today shows Arctic Ice anomaly becoming more negative, but Antarctic Ice doing the reverse: http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/