How do the poles stay cold? #climate #northpole

[NationalCapitalRegionOfManila]

It is also gets worse with the earth's tilt making that poles having the sun or no in the sky 24/7 in a few months🥲

[paulachenkonobert]

Not to mention that a large area of land in the Arctic circle is covered in permafrost.
This permafrost is basically frozen muskeg/bog.
At some point in the planets past, the poles were warm enough for all that organic matter to grow and flourish.
Then a cycle of cooling happened again and it froze.
Now the cooling pattern has changed back to a warming cycle.

[StarbornCthulhu]

Apparently there are talks of making ice floe boats to freeze large icebergs into existence to help our albedo

[snule]

Climate change isn't scary to me anymore, it's just depressingly sad

[coffeeking]

Not to mention trees in cold climates exacerbate the warming effect.

As it gets warmer, trees start to grow in areas like the tundra. They counteract the reflective properties of the snow and capture heat, and spread their tree lines.

[dancslaszlo]

Not just that, but on greenland the dirt below the ice and snow is dark, that also takes more sunlight.

[Qwert-]

also people wear shades sometimes because the brightness can cause blindness

[oOVanillaMelOo]

I’ve always wondered why couldn’t we use all that plastic floating around in the ocean, or any discarded plastic really, and use it to make compacted floating block that mimic the snow and ice in the poles. It’s a legit question and I’ve never seen anything being tested out about this. I know it wouldn’t solve every problems but it certainly would help a lot with the snow melting AND the enormous amount of trash plastic in the ocean imo. Anyone knows why it would/wouldn’t be possible??

[aaryananand]

Now Derek has to go ahead and get ppl to drop a trillion black balls in the Arctic Ocean…

[Rabelro]

If anyone wonders how it became ice in the first place is #1 the lower atmospheric pressure from setrifical force pushing air away or #2 the night time leingth on both areas freezing everything

[AbigailEvanson]

Also the ozone layer has giant holes in it over both poles so that's fun

[fbkintanar]

This might explain most of the heating in the Arctic, but it doesn't seem to work for accelerated heating in Antarctica.

[StoneGem]

Damn i hope we find a way to preserve these

[adamast]

At low angle water reflects sunlight while it is still emitting heat. So I am not sure where that 90% comes from or if it is warming up. But yes sea water is warmer than ice.
(edit) some 50% reflection at a 20° angle and the polar circle gets 23° at best=midday summer solstice

[yungorst]

I thought it was 12 times faster than the equator. Is that when there is less ice?

[jutau]

That subtle Snowfall in the background.

[SirJ-qqye]

Oh you rly used Snowfall as background music. Nice i love this song

[harish]

Why only ice should do the reflection?
Cover oceans around the poles with sharp white coat. If it helps.

[rais]

Almost the entire Antarctic region is covered by the Antarctic continent, not by sea. Warming sea can only melt sea ice at the fringes of the region.

[oscarguzman]

We are so fucked. But the rich gotta get richer, so it's TOTALLY understandable.