RNR 1001 Chapter : RNR 26 Sep
Document Summary
Huge amounts of people are dependent on water runoff to sustain their species. Southwestern us water runoff will go down that will cause serious problems because they won"t have ways to get water that they need. One of the problems we see as the planet warms up is glacier melting. We are losing ice, which has very high albedo and replacing it with dirt, rocks, and water, which has low albedo. This has the positive feedback loop, which means the ice melts as it warms up more, then the ice melts and it warms up more and melts more ice and continues. Melting of the ice sheets on the planet important for albedo, water levels, Not only is it melting, but at a more rapid rate (greenland) The problem is the planet is warming faster and the animals are having water supply for animals trouble adapting to that change.
