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Originally Posted by G O R T
The situation is more complicated than that..
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William of Occum would be pleased to hear that.. tell me more...
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Originally Posted by G O R T
The entire Arctic lies in the negative energy flux high latitudes, meaning of course that the annual average heat energy lost to space is higher than insolation. A reduction of sea ice does reduce albedo and increases absorbtion, but it also increases radiation loss to space.
My point is that the heat energy to melt Arctic sea ice is coming from lower latitudes. The exact consequences of an increase in exposed Arctic sea surface on the global heat budget is not yet known. This could well be a negative feedback responsible for holding the measured temperature increases below the predictions.
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So am I to understand that all the excess heat that the AGW models predict is leaking into space through the poles?
Is that why the world is refusing to warm as predicted by the models?
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/c...TRY=1&SRETRY=0
Is that why in the U.S. the warmest decade was the 1930s and the warmest year was 1934?
http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=1139