Can Anything Stop Earth’s Arctic Pattern Balding?

Like male pattern balding the Earth is losing its top cover over time. With the age of industrial revolution getting up there the balding effects of thinning ice, receding ice line winter and summer and a pattern of ice loss seem to make total loss of ice inevitable. No simple comb over or toupee remedies are feasible. There isn’t enough ice-making capability to cover the ice loss. One wonders if some Rogaine-like chemical patch to stop or even reverse loss of ice cover and reinvigorate the planet’s high albedo index is possible.

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/multiyear.ice.quikscat.mov

Perhaps building a berm-bridge-wall across the Bering Strait that would halt the flow of water between the Arctic Ocean and the North Pacific would help keep warmer waters out of the Arctic and reduce ice-cover loss. Certainly the Arctic Ocean and lands within 300 miles should be fossil fuel and industrial pollution free allowing just fuel cell and electric powered vehicles. High Arctic direct exhaust emission is one of the greatest accelerators of global warming. The air is already thinner up top.

When team Toyota won the Daytona 500 stock car race this year it exemplified how old American auto culture is; a very over-mature technology that everyone else is good at too. Since the U.S.A. has used that fossil fuel-auto-truck paradigm more than a century now without any sort of change to something new it is comparable to using Victrolas for music rather than the Internet. If the U.S.A. wants to lead world environmental recovery it will need to invent new, cleaner personal and mass transport infrastructure-not just make incremental improvements on the old.

When the Earth is humiliated with ice loss and resembles a bozo with fringe ice around the edges of the Arctic Ocean basin it will mean more than lack of prestige with Venus. Venus has already gone over the top with runaway greenhouse gassing and is around 700 degree f at the surface. She needs detoxification and rehabilitation from her sulfurous dioxide life style of the past to be a potential partner for the Earth.

Yet the Earth is quickly balding its Arctic ice cover and will absorb more warmth seasonally cooking somewhat like shrimp in a plastic water filled baggie left in the sun. maybe the Earth can’t have a fuller, thicker ice cover than it did before the industrial revolution, yet science ought to try.