Sentences with phrase «vicious feedback cycle»

Then the ground would absorb more sunlight, which would warm the air, which would melt still more snow: a vicious feedback cycle.

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This skepticism about the future — even with asset prices rising — has created a negative feedback loop, driving investors to safe harbors such as cash, bonds, gold and yield - generating securities thereby reducing demand, inflation and growth in an ongoing vicious cycle.

«It's a vicious cycle of feedback where warming causes the release of carbon from permafrost, which causes more warming, which causes more release from permafrost,» Field said.

Climate responses are highly likely to be non-linear, and many of the possible feedbacks are strongly positive (that's a vicious cycle, for those allergic to slightly technical language.)

This vicious cycle is called a positive feedback, and is believed to add considerably to the basic no - feedback greenhouse effect attributable to CO2.

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Fox merely perpetuates a vicious cycle by feeding climate misinformation into what has become a massive feedback loop, making it increasingly harder to communicate the facts about global warming to millions of Americans.

Thus, sea ice has melted at an unprecedented rate and is now caught in a vicious cycle known as the ice - albedo feedback: as sea ice retreats, sunshine that would have been reflected into space by the bright white ice is instead absorbed by the ocean, causing waters to warm and melt even more ice.

This positive feedback loop, or «vicious cycle», is incredibly powerful.

Scientists are still exploring such feedbacks, which act as vicious cycles to accelerate warming.

Basically, if such a bidirectional relationship can be established between two kinds of variables this means that they may enter into a self - generating «vicious cycle» where increases in the one variable lead to increases in the other, and vice versa — a process that can be described in terms of a dynamic system, where internal feedback processes lead to the emergence and stabilization of pathological patterns.