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Climate emergency: feedback loops - albedo
Climate change is setting off dangerous feedback loops at the Poles. The melting of Arctic ice and snow decreases Earth’s ability to reflect the sun’s rays, leading to further heating and melting of ice and snow. In Antarctica, the warmer climate is melting ice sheets, leading to raised sea levels, which melts ice sheets further in an amplifying loop.
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- Mabe the earth needs to warm as part of a natural process(0 votes)
- At5:40, it predicts that the Arctic ice will be 100% gone by the end of the century. Does that mean that the world will end in 2100?(0 votes)
- No. Coastal cities or islands will be flooded, but the overall sea rise isn't enough to end the world yet.
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