BIOL 1020H Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Greenland Ice Sheet, Pubmed, Eric Rignot
17 Dec 2015
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Recent rapid arctic warming has been linked to the retreat of the sea-ice, which exposes a darker ocean surface that absorbs more sunlight (screen and. Simmonds 2010), generating a positive feedback that is already amplifying regional climate change. As screen and simonds implies, the positive feedback that can found in this is that there is a relation between arctic warming to the diminishing and breaking of the sea ice. As result, this exposes the ocean surface, which in turn, would absorb more sunlight (2010). Just as these few changes in the climate will gradually soon add up, these little things can make a big difference" (gladwell 2000). In other words, at a particular moment in time, a small change can have large, long-term consequences for a system. Nevertheless, these little things can make a big difference" (gladwell 2000) as these events will gradually begin to add up.
