A standard approach is the praise sandwich or
feedback sandwich, which attempts to sidestep blame, conflict, and hurt feelings
by surrounding negative
feedback with
positive statements.
bozzza - The differences in the Arctic are perhaps 1/4 the ocean thermal mass as global ocean averages, small overall size (the smallest ocean), being almost
surrounded by land (which warms faster), more limited liquid interchanges due to bottlenecking than the Antarctic, and very importantly considerable susceptibility to
positive albedo
feedbacks; as less summer ice is present given current trends, solar energy absorbed
by the Arctic ocean goes up very rapidly.