"Escalating causality! It is cyclic as one does something and the other responds, but it certainly escalates with each turn of the circle."
"Right, it’s hard to guess where it will go at the outset, but escalation is like that."
"It is cyclic causality but it could increase each time. The less ice there is, the more the earth absorbs the heat from the sun and the more the ice melts. It just keeps escalating."