songster, on 05 April 2011 - 21:14 , said:
How do you mean "hold on to"? The moderator posting the thread doesn't need to do anything - all I'm doing is editing my post as new guesses come in. If it gets buried too far back upthread, I'll make a fresh post if needed. I can keep doing that in this thread if people want, or when someone creates a new thread I can just copy and paste it over. I don't think it's a good idea to ask the moderator who creates the thread to post up the list, since that's also implicitly asking them to continually edit it to keep it up to date, and that's not a fair ask.
Or do you mean you want to be the one to keep track of things? Be my guest if so.
No Songster, It'd just be nice to have a record , if we swap threads, of our first thoughts on the season? There was a time when it'd been much of a muchness with not a lot of years falling below 6 million whereas today?
Instead of looking at 'synoptics' ,for both oceans warmth and air temp, as the control for melt we now have a basin bereft of the old 'backbone' of paleocrystic ice that made up the majority of ice left at summers end. We seem to have a basin full of ice younger than 4 years old and of a thickness that will melt out in an average season?
Some folk are still living in the world of the 'old Arctic' and their punt's betray (to me?) that fact. Come summers end it will be educational , for us all, to see why we put our guesses where we did?
I think we need wait until late June until we'll have any idea as to whose 'understanding' of the impacts of climate shift are most pertinent?
Edited by Gray-Wolf, 05 April 2011 - 21:26 .
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