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What people always seem to overlook are the news about melting ice caps in relation to the planetary energy balance.
Ice is a huge energy sink.
With the same energy you need to melt ice, just transforming 0°C cold ice into water without heating it up whatsoever, you could also heat that same amount of 0°C cold liquid water to 81°C!
And we are melting through our ice reserves at incredible speeds right now.
Once there is no more ice left to melt, we suddenly have a huge surplus on energy entering the system, that has to go somewhere else. Incoming heat spike...
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