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Professor Iain Stewart uses coloured and plain ice cubes to demonstrate the albedo effect. Light surfaces reflect more heat than dark surfaces. This phenomenon is known as the albedo effect, and is a powerful force in driving regular ice ages in Earth鈥檚 history.

As the Earth鈥檚 temperature drops, induced by the planet鈥檚 extreme orbit, this triggers ice sheets to grow. The expanding ice means more of the Sun鈥檚 energy is reflected back into space, leading a to further drop in temperature.