The more you lose, the more open water is created, the more warming goes on in that open water during the summer, the less ice forms in the winter, the more melt there is the following summer.

失去的（冰盖）增加，就会形成更多的开放水域，这些开放水域在夏天时的温度会更高，在冬天形成的冰更少，在接下来的夏天会有更多的冰融化。