Sentences with phrase «reflective white snow»
This development also sets up dangerous climate feedback loops as reflective white snow and ice turn into heat - absorbing dark - blue water.
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More ground turns from white reflective snow to black, heat absorbant dirt.The same effect occurs as sea ice is lost.The corals blanch, and, as I stated last year on this site, the shutdown of the north Atlantic current will occur, since the salinity level studies I spoke of last year, off Greenland, continue to show that the upwelling mechanisms driving the North Atlanic current are in severe jeapordy, because the change in salinity levels effects the driver of the current, the upwelling and downwelling of different salinity levels off Greenland.
black soot has also been found by a recent university of california study to be the direct cause of the albedo warming effect on the otherwise highly reflective and pristine white arctic ice & snow.
But the white paint or white sand or snow has reflective nature - it's scattering light.
When black carbon falls on ice and snow, it smudges their bright white reflective surfaces.