Smoke from boreal wildfires could cool the Arctic
There are two things which climate scientists hate about “positive feedbacks”. One is that they are bad news. A positive feedback, in the science of complex systems, is an amplification; in climate change, this comes about when a consequence of rising temperatures drives a further rise in temperature. Such feedbacks are the sorts of things that drive tipping points.
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