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Dangerous climate feedback loops have been underestimated • Earth.com
2023-09-11 (or before) in Earth.comcurrent climate models may underestimate some of the effects of global warming because they fail to take full account of the role of amplifying feedback loops
Tagged under: Feedback Loops
Climate Feedback Loops and Tipping Points | Center for Science Education
2023-07-09 (or before) by in Center for Science EducationFeedback loops play an important role in interactions among parts of the climate system. Positive feedback loops can sometimes result in irreversible change as climate conditions cross a tipping point.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Tipping Points | Feedback Loops
Ecologists Find Unexpected Feedback Loops Could Complicate Fighting Climate Change
2023-03-13 (or before) in InversePrevious models may not have accounted for small factors that make keeping below two degrees Celsius much more difficult.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Feedback Loops
Scientists Examine Dangerous Global Warming ‘Accelerators’ - Inside Climate News
2023-02-17 by in Inside Climate NewsRecent climate projections may be underestimating the pace of global warming in an atmosphere damaged by greenhouse gas emissions, because the interaction of powerful climate feedback loops that can accelerate warming are not well-represented in key climate models, an international team of scientists concluded in a study published today in the journal One Earth. Their […]
Tagged under: Global Warming | Feedback Loops
How Feedback Loops Are Making the Climate Crisis Worse
2020-01-07 in The Climate Reality ProjectIf you want to understand how our climate will change in the coming decades, you’ve got to understand feedback loops.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Feedback Loops
Emissions from thawing Arctic permafrost may be 12 times higher than thought, scientists say
2019-04-17 in The Independent‘This needs to be taken more seriously than it is right now,’ says author of new study
Tagged under: Global Warming | Arctic | Alaska | Feedback Loops | Ice Melting | Methane | Permafrost | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
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