Sentences with phrase «trigger ice albedo feedbacks»
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Sea ice reflects most of the sun's energy, he explained, whereas the open ocean absorbs more energy, and thus the disappearance of sea ice triggers even more warming, in a positive - feedback loop called albedo.
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«If you can time your emissions so they have the least impact then you will not trigger these very sensitive regions to start warming by this ice albedo feedback process.»
«If you can time your emissions so they have the least impact then you will not trigger these very sensitive regions to start warming by this ice albedo feedback process.»
The main idea is that melting triggers more melting through the ice albedo feedback mechanism.
Re # 5 As far as I understand it (drawing on my recollections of a lecture Hansen gave here at Yale a few weeks back), the actual net forcing associated with Milankovich cycles is relatively small, but it tends to trigger massive feedbacks (e.g. polar ice expanding, lowering albedo, cooling, expanding more) that «snowball» into a glacial period.