Signal: albedo loss
albedoeffect

Warming due to loss of snow and ice twice as strong as estimated

by on 19. Jan, 2011 in Uncategorized

full science report at http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1062.html

arctic ice albedo feedback

Arctic air conditioning effect melting away with ice

by on 18. Jan, 2011 in Uncategorized

Shrinking ice and snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere is reflecting ever less sunshine back into space in a previously underestimated mechanism that could add to global warming, a study showed. Satellite data indicated that Arctic sea ice, glaciers, winter snow and Greenland’s ice were bouncing less energy back to space from 1979 to 2008. [...]