Could Ice Harvesting have had an effect on global warming?

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>>8520266
Remember the Canterbury, anon, the ice trade isn't as safe as you'd think it is.

>>8520266
absolutely none

The earth is a giant, almost-closed system, with energy coming in from the light from the sun and radiating out from the earth in the form of infrared light. The only way to change the temperature of the earth is to change how much energy is absorbed from the sun (reflect some of it back to space, for example) or to reduce the amount of infrared light radiating out (filling the atmosphere with certain gasses like methane or carbon dioxide, for example).

Moving around giant bits of hot and cold may have effects on the weather, but it will have absolutely no effect on the global mean temperature. This is why we are confident about climate predictions (because the system is, ultimately, very simple) and unconfident about weather predictions (not a closed system).

>>8521061
Actually if you transport vast amounts of ice cover from the North Pole in the winter the ice would reflect sunlight at southern latitudes while the open surface in the winter darkness would emit a lot of thermal infrared radiation into space and also heat the atmosphere.

The local weather men alleged that reduced ice coverage over the North Pole one winter was the direct reason their weather forecasts for that winter had failed particularly spectacularly.

>>8521061
Albedo of ice/snow ~ 0.9
Albedo of land ~ 0.2

4-5 times as much nigga, if that's no change what is it

>>8522925
That stuff only matters when you start moving state-sized amounts if ice around. Fair point though.

We should just bleach sahara desert. I wonder if it would be ever possible