<<BobGollumNote>>
Not necessarily -- I've read at least 2 papers claiming that cloud cover takes over from snow/ice albedo because of evaporation from the now open ocean surface. Also -- Albedo only matters if the sun hits it. Which is rare in most places in the upper Arctic most of the year.
What you got out of your reading is hysteria. Not reasoned deductions.. Or even a balanced view of the studies out there.
When that ice starts all melting, year after year, it will no longer reflect energy, into space. When the Arctic albedo is GONE, extra CH4 will be in the atmosphere, and then West Antarctica will be endangered ice territory. And after that, East Antarctica will start to melt.
Not necessarily -- I've read at least 2 papers claiming that cloud cover takes over from snow/ice albedo because of evaporation from the now open ocean surface. Also -- Albedo only matters if the sun hits it. Which is rare in most places in the upper Arctic most of the year.
What you got out of your reading is hysteria. Not reasoned deductions.. Or even a balanced view of the studies out there.