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You can an article saying anything. But the global ice meltoff is not imaginary.

I like to say, on a summer day you defrost your freezer. The kitchen, of course, gets cooler for a while. But once the ice is gone, its a hot summer day everywhere.



> But once the ice is gone, its a hot summer day everywhere.

Well that’s an extra depressing way to put it to me for some reason.


This is why a Blue Ocean Event (BOE) would really signal the start of a whole new climate regime. Not only because of the albedo change, but the energy that goes into melting ice is enormous; that heat energy would instead be transferred to the ocean water itself.


So profound and poetic.




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