There are other destabilizing feedbacks in the carbon cycle that involve the oceans.
There are several positive feedbacks in the climate system that are known, and quite possibly others that haven't yet been identified, and all are cause for concern.
We don't know this, nor the nature and strength of natural feedbacks in the climate system that might drive future warming.
We still don't have a good grasp of how clouds and water vapor, the two big feedbacks in the climate system, will respond to global warming.
In Jensen's mind, the evidence that adding CO2 to the atmosphere can kick off feedbacks in the system to create more warming is "not compelling at all".
We are already experiencing positive feedbacks in the climate system with our present degree of warming of barely 1C, notably with the Arctic summer ice melt.
Their sensitivity is based upon how accurately they describe the processes and feedbacks in the climate system.The other type energy-balance models—are simpler.
"Participants were concerned about the possibility for adverse feedbacks in which economic weakness could lead to further tightening in credit conditions, which could in turn slow the economy further," the minutes reported.
"One of the really fun things that we're doing now is understanding how the type of feedbacks in these groups is like the ones in the brain that allows humans to make decisions," Dr. Couzin said.
He has also considered studies that warn of positive feedbacks in the climate system, where increasing temperatures force more greenhouse gases from natural sources such as the oceans and soils into the atmosphere.
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