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How does warmer planet causes ice to melt and then cause the warm up even more?

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Melting ice causes more warming.

Because they are darker in color, the ocean and land absorb more incoming solar radiation, and then release the heat to the atmosphere. This causes more global warming. In this way, melting ice causes more warming and so more ice melts.

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