Ice Albedo Feedback Model

Published 2016-03-13

Ice reflects sunlight back into space, which has the result of cooling the planet. That cooling of the planet can cause more ice to form, which will cool the planet further and result in even more ice. This feedback loop can cause wild temperature swings between glacial and interglacial periods. (See for example the end of the last glacial period 10,000 years ago: http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/shakun_marcott_hadcrut4_a1b_eng-768x609.png)

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