It basically does what the name implies: it stimulates the release of thyroid hormone, and is therefore
a useful feedback mechanism.
Not exact matches
But even with all those flaws, earnings estimates provided
useful function in being a
feedback mechanism so that the market knows how to react in general, when earnings are released.
The discussion about
feedbacks provides a
useful list of amplifying or dampening
mechanisms playing a role for an AGW, but I missed three dampening
feedbacks.
The complexity of the climate system and the uncertainty around our understanding of its
mechanisms and the
feedback interactions of it's components, along with the uncertainty around our measurements of its activity mean that at this stage we can not be sure global surface temperature will trend up or down, or even whether surface temperature is the most
useful metric for the throughput of energy in the climate system.