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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
That's what I have been saying all along less ice is good, I would be more worries if the glaciers are growing.
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Sea ice algae is the beginning of the marine food chain.Zooplankton and Phytoplankton feed off it.Phytoplankton is where our oxygen comes from.
When the sea ice goes,we're looking at the collapse of the marine life.
The albedo effects from the loss of ice will be runaway warming.Methane clathrates will melt,amplifying the greenhouse effect.More runaway warming.
Thermal expansion of oceans.Accelerated ice sheet melting.Accelerated glacier calving,sea-level rise.Loss of ice mass means tectonic rebound,exacerbating sea-level rise.Corral death.Collapse of fisheries.Ocean acidification and loss of all shellfish,mollusks,plankton.
Extinction of polar species.Freshwater pulse to arctic and antarctic will effect thermohaline circulation with unknown consequences.
Atmospheric warming will harm food production.Latent heat will kill.Non-linear feedback loops will accelerate change beyond timescales in which technology could affect adaptation.Nuclear power will become impossible as heat sink disappears....................It just goes on and on........................
The atmosphere was stable for 11,000-years until we started burning coal.For current CO2 concentrations we'll see 70-feet of sea rise.No life forms evolved for abrupt climate change.It's the rate of change that's going to take us out.