Posted by CypressTX on 5/22/2009, 7:32 pm, in reply to "Re: Satellite Failure?"

http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_timeseries.png --Previous Message-- : Ice cover the past couple of weeks has : decreased at the fastest rate ever recorded. : Doesn't sound like much but to me as most : of you know by now I am looking at the : timing of it--specifically that the global : electrical circuit is much more active, : particularly to the summer time in the : Northern Hemisphere, due to the fact that : there is more land in the northern : hemisphere and land is where lightning : occurs. Since to me CO2 is a conductivity : variable, it gets expressed (this variable : of CO2) when lightning is at its greatest. : Therefore, summer and late fall when we see : the the 2 - 3 standard deviations from the : 79-2000 mean--this confirms my electrics : theory, and as a sub set of it, despite the : quiet (spotless days) sun, we are now seeing : this record melting, and in my view the : start of yet another trend for the late : summer early fall to see the Arctic become : ice free. : : Mike :