A feedback loop is when a system is circled back and used as an input. This process can amplify the system and/or inhibit the system.

Feedback loops are important because they allow systems to maintain balance, and living organisms to maintain homeostasis.

Places that create feedback loops are:

• Nature
• Education systems
• News media and social media
• Words and narrative (internal & external)

Climate change causes complications in Natures feedback loops such as:

• Increase in forest fires

• Ocean-warming

• Arctic methane release

• Desertification

It is important for climate modeling to take into account the amount of carbon (and other GHGs) released due to these feedback loops to accurately inform climate policy, in order to successfully achieve temperature or GHG concentration targets.

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