Sentences with phrase «as a positive feedback loop»

Of particular concern is what White describes as a positive feedback loop where ice meets ocean.

A big reason for this is that they create the conditions that produce themselves, known as a positive feedback loop.

This is what computer modelers refer to as a positive feedback loop, a situation where a trend creates conditions that reinforce itself.

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As the panic to buy increases, it is a self - fulfilling positive feedback loop.

The results suggest that human - dog interactions elicit the same type of oxytocin positive feedback loop as seen between mothers and their infants, the team reports online today in Science.

The shrinking sea ice drives a classic positive feedback loop: as more ice melts, fewer patches of white snow reflect solar energy, and larger regions of dark, sunlight - absorbing seawater open up — both causing the ice to melt even faster.

Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Well even with melatonin I talked to Dr. Ron Rothenberg about that and he says long as the dose is relatively low that that won't happen coz it's a positive feedback loop with these things.

It could be the other way around as well because once you enter the positive feedback loop, they feed on each other and eventually the body becomes unstable.

... you're on the right track when you visualize a positive feedback loop as a mechanism which is nested inside a negative feedback loop.

A positive feedback loop is in effect, wherein the dog's love gives rise to the person's well - being, and the person's need for the dog... gives form and function to his purpose as a fiercely faithful four - legged healer.

I believe a good level editor can be as engaging and entertaining as a game itself and - when combined with a great game - has the potential to create a positive feedback loop between playing and creating.

I'm not saying this is like arranging deck chairs on the Titanic as it either A) more quickly or B) more slowly heads toward the ice berg, but I think we (as people, if not as scientists) should now start being concerned about reaching milestones in the warming (whether we reach them faster or slower) at which positive feedback loops kick in — even if this is difficult scientifically to quantify or prove.

The kinetic energy from the falling rain that occurs after condensation then feeds the circular winds that in turn draw more heat from evaporation etc. so as to form a positive feedback loop.

Proxy evidence suggests a strongly positive NAO and persistent La Nina mode of ENSO over the period ~ 1050 — 1400CE, possibly operating together as a self - reinforcing positive feedback loop (Trouet et al. 2009).

As the snow gets dirtier, its reflectivity decreases, and it melts faster, which causes a positive feedback loop, said the study's lead author, Marco Tedesco, a glaciologist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y.

This is because as H20 condenses out of the atmosphere the GHE is reduced, leading to further reductions in H20... a positive feedback loop.

feedback loop, which will continue to hum along as an independent mechanism to keep the climate system at warmer temperatures until some new cooling event shuts down the positive feedback loop.

It is ironic that AGW supporters use this as a refutation of the sun's effect, since they have exactly the same problem with CO2, and must posit huge positive feedback loops to justify their forecasts.

CO2 can act as both a primary driver, if humans burn fossil fuels to increase CO2 levels, and a secondary driver (part of the positive feedback loop) if CO2 levels increase naturally as a result of other forcings which cause a warming and which, in turn, lead to increased CO2 levels.

There has been a particularly toxic positive feedback loop between climate science and policy and politics, whose direction has arguably been reversed as result of Climategate.

As for the «positive feedback loop,» I completely agree with the mechanism.

Dr. Curry has made some very astute suggestions concerning what needs to be done to reverse the «direction of this positive feedback loop» (as she described it).

2006, the year when we connected positive feedback loops to abprupt climate change / as happend a few times in earth history.

They have, in effect, caused a positive feedback loop: the more soil is exposed to sunlight as a result of trees burning, the speedier the decomposition process and the more carbon dioxide is released.

Bitcoin's rise to new all - time highs continues to make international headlines Monday as a combination of factors appears to be generating a positive feedback loop of interest from previously wary potential adopters.

In addition, Tom Sexton's revival of reframing as a core aspect of Functional Family Therapy draws on constructivist use of language to actively notice the positive intentions of family members when caught in problem - maintaining feedback loops of behaviour and language.

Turner cited the fact that social networks «seduce» users with positive feedback loops (such as liking and sharing), and these kinds interactions not only lure them into spending lots of time doing things on social networks that have little business value but also cause them to neglect important professional and personal relationships.