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    Positive feedbacks enhance global warming while negative feedbacks weaken it.: 2233  Feedbacks are important in the understanding of climate change because...
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    contribution to overall uncertainty in climate feedbacks Wolff et al. 2015: "the nature and magnitude of these feedbacks are the principal cause of uncertainty...
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    response of the climate system to an initial forcing is modified by feedbacks: increased by "self-reinforcing" or "positive" feedbacks and reduced by "balancing"...
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    climate. Changes in cloud cover are closely coupled with other feedbacks, including the water vapor feedback and ice–albedo feedback. Climate change is...
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    have secondary effects on the climate system. These secondary effects are called climate feedbacks. Self-reinforcing feedbacks include for example the melting...
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    disproportionately large change in the system. It can also be associated with self-reinforcing feedbacks, which could lead to changes in the climate system irreversible...
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    now the Arctic has warmed faster than most other regions due to climate change feedbacks. Surface air temperatures over land have also increased at about...
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    Ice–albedo feedback is a climate change feedback, where a change in the area of ice caps, glaciers, and sea ice alters the albedo and surface temperature...
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  • value. Positive climate change feedbacks amplify changes in the climate system, and can lead to destabilizing effects for the climate. An increase in...
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    Albedo (category Climate change feedbacks)
    response of the climate system to an initial forcing is modified by feedbacks: increased by "self-reinforcing" or "positive" feedbacks and reduced by "balancing"...
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    Forcings, feedbacks and the dynamics of the climate system determine how much and how fast the climate changes. The main positive feedback in global warming...
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    feedback concerns the releases of carbon from soils in response to global warming. This response under climate change is a positive climate feedback....
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  • This glossary of climate change is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to climate change, global warming, and related topics. 0–9 A B...
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    Arctic methane emissions (category Climate change feedbacks)
    release is exacerbated by global warming. This results in a positive climate change feedback (meaning one that amplifies warming), as methane is a powerful...
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    ISSN 1944-8007. Stephens, Graeme L. (2005). "Cloud Feedbacks in the Climate System: A Critical Review". Journal of Climate. 18 (2): 237–273. Bibcode:2005JCli...18...
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    or natural (e.g., changes in solar output, the Earth's orbit, volcano eruptions). There are a variety of climate change feedbacks that can either amplify...
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    Climate change in Pakistan is a major issue for the country. Pakistan is highly vulnerable to climate change. As with the changing climate in South Asia...
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    Climate change adaptation is the process of adjusting to the effects of climate change. These can be both current or expected impacts. Adaptation aims...
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    deforestation and climate change is one of a positive (amplifying) climate feedback. The more trees that are removed equals larger effects of climate change which...
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    component to an external forcing can be damped by negative feedbacks and enhanced by positive feedbacks. For example, a significant decrease of solar intensity...
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    Gaia hypothesis (category Climate change feedbacks)
    multiplication of greenhouse gases may cause negative feedbacks in the environment to become positive feedback. Lovelock has stated that this could bring an extremely...
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    vulnerable to changing to other ecosystem types. These changes can cause Climate change feedback cycles, where thawing permafrost and changing ecosystems...
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    Treat, Claire; Turetsky, Merritt (2022). "Permafrost and Climate Change: Carbon Cycle Feedbacks From the Warming Arctic". Annual Review of Environment and...
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  • A climate change scenario is a hypothetical future based on a "set of key driving forces".: 1812  Scenarios explore the long-term effectiveness of mitigation...
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    Chapter 5: Global Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles and Feedbacks. In Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group...
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    Climate change denial (also global warming denial) is a form of science denial characterized by rejecting, refusing to acknowledge, disputing, or fighting...
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  • Climate Feedback (CF) is a web-based content annotation tool that allows qualified scientists to comment on stories online, adding context and noting inaccuracies...
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    Climate change is altering biomes already now, adversely affecting ecosystems on land and in the ocean. Climate change represents the long-term changes...
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  • and adapt to the effects of global warming and climate change—during the year 2024. 19 March: "The climate crisis is the defining challenge that humanity...
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  • these environmental changes are similar to those caused by the effects of global warming. Major land surface changes affecting climate include deforestation...
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