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Warmer climate and Arctic sea ice in a veritable suicide pact » Yale Climate Connections – Yale Climate Connections
Their ‘death spiral’ is a vicious melting-warming feedback, leading to more melting of snow and ice and still more warming, an ongoing cycle.
Arctic sea ice and a warmer climate seem to be in a round-and-round endless loop of a revolving door, each threatening the other’s demise.
Think of it as a suicide pact on ice – global warming and Arctic sea ice in a mutually destructive relationship.
Earth’s rising temperatures melt Arctic snow and ice, which, as the reflective surface cover disappears, reveals the dark land and ocean surface beneath. That darkening surface causes the Arctic to absorb more sunlight and therefore to warm faster…
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