Global Warming Climate Feedbacks

The climate system is a dynamic balance. Why is continuously adjusting to disruptions forced, as a result, the climate is altered. A change in any part of the climate system, forced mechanisms initiated by internal or external, will have a much broader result, as the cascade effect is propagated, via the components associated with the climate system, is amplified. This is known as feedback. As an effect is transferred from one sub-system to another, will be changed in nature or scale. In some cases the initial effect may be amplified (positive feedback), while in others it may be reduced (negative feedback).

An example of a positive feedback mechanism, involving water vapor. A warmer atmosphere potentially increase the amount of water vapor in it. Since water vapor is a greenhouse gas is trapping more energy than the air temperature will increase further. This in turn produces more water vapor, with a positive feedback.

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