Sentences with phrase «describes as a positive feedback»

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

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As I describe in Survival +, there is a positive feedback in the process of concentrating wealth and thus political power: the more wealth one acquires, the more political influence one can purchase, which then enables the accumulation of even more wealth as the State / Elite partnership showers benefits and monopolies on those who fund elections, i.e. the wealthAs I describe in Survival +, there is a positive feedback in the process of concentrating wealth and thus political power: the more wealth one acquires, the more political influence one can purchase, which then enables the accumulation of even more wealth as the State / Elite partnership showers benefits and monopolies on those who fund elections, i.e. the wealthas the State / Elite partnership showers benefits and monopolies on those who fund elections, i.e. the wealthy.

One Tory activist spoke hesitantly of the feedback on the doorstep being «pretty positive» and described their support as «mostly holding up».

Weblogs, commonly described as online personal journals, retain many of the more positive aspects of the traditional format - supported by the words of a pre-service teacher, «[I] f you write it down, you have to think about it» - while offering a fresh space for reflective thought, the option of communal feedback, and the ease of electronic availability.

I think this are somewhat worse than what is usually described (IPCC estimates are conservative and do not take into account all of the positive feedback which results from moving outside of the metastable attractor), and in my view we can't afford to take any of the options off the table — although if we see problems with a given approach, we may try to minimize them through safeguards, e.g., so as to keep nukes out of the hands of rogue regimes.

And again, since the majority of the warming as described in this post is a function of natural variability, then the positive feedbacks are natural as well.

What you describe, if it happens, is in the same direction as that which reduces the size of the so - called hot spot, and we know that the hot spot would be a negative feedback, so its weakening makes the total feedback more positive.

It's all as it was in those happy carefree days of 2009 and before, BC (yes, Before Cli **** ga **) as we call it now, when the MSM would happily «highlight the most alarmist aspects and downplay any mention of uncertainty» (Zorita), when no doubts were allowed, or should I say expressed, about the holy trilogy of WG1, 2, and 3 — how certain it was that the well - accepted theory of ghg effect, and the impacts thereof, would lead to a Copenhagen / Kyoto utopia of global cooperation, and that the IPCC was cool (whoops, «the request for more research about the social dynamics of the IPCC, of positive feedbacks as described by Judith, is meaningful for me» (von Storch).)

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).

This could perhaps be the identification of cyclical patterns in the temperature records that explain recent warming, the GCR experiments, an unkown feedback (or the full understanding of clouds, removing their possibility as a positive feedback as described by thr IPCC) or something else.

Now they have described some of the known knowns: we now know without doubt that methane is venting to Earth's atmosphere from parts of the ESAS seabed in copious quantities as a response - a positive feedback - to warming.