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Arctic Ice Changes in past 3 years due to ‘shifting winds’The Star Canada – July 28, 2009 – Excerpt: Oceanographer and Arctic researcher Jane Eert said “dramatic [Arctic ice] changes in the past three years are the result of shifting winds.” “Enormous amounts of ice have ‘been exported from the Arctic,’ driven by winds that are shifting,” according to Eert. Eert noted that climate models have many woes. “The guys who are running the long-term climate models have a tough problem,” Eert says. “They’re looking at really long time scales, and as result they can’t look at a lot of details for each year. In order to get the results before you die, you have to fudge some things. And what they fudge is the small-scale stuff. But it turns out that probably the small-scale stuff is important and fudging it gives you wrong answers.” […] Jane Eert is science coordinator of the Three Oceans Project, a federal study of Canada’s Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans. […] A physical oceanographer, Eert leads the scientific team aboard The Louis. It’s her 10th voyage on the ship since 1999. Between 10 and 15 per cent of the Arctic Ocean is what Eert calls a data hole. It will take years’ more research to fill it in with solid information, she adds. After years of reports that vast areas of Arctic ice are melting as the seawater below, and air above, warm up, scientists have discovered that dramatic changes in the past three years are the result of shifting winds, perhaps caused by climate change. Enormous amounts of ice have “been exported from the Arctic,” driven by winds that are shifting as the climate changes, which pushed the ice into ocean currents that delivered it