climate feedback, definition of

An atmospheric, oceanic, terrestrial, or other process that is activated by direct climate change induced by changes in radiative forcing. Climate feedbacks may increase (positive feedback) or diminish (negative feedback) the magnitude of the direct climate change.

• Addressing misconceptions about Climate Sensitivity research: a Response to recent Criticisms
  by Nic Lewis The determination of equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS)—the long-term warming response to doubled atmospheric CO2 concentrations—remains one of the most crucial yet challenging problems in climate science...
• Facebook “Fact Checks” Prof. Will Happer
  By Angela Wheeler The only way to combat censorship is to shine a light on it whenever we see it. In censoring material that contradicts the popular – though increasingly…
• Hansen’s latest overheated global warming claims are based on poor science
  James Hansen’s latest paper “Global warming in the pipeline” (Hansen et al. (2023)) has already been heavily criticized in a lengthy comment by Michael Mann, author of the original IPCC ‘hockey stick’. However Mann does not...
• Do CMIP5 models skillfully match actual warming?
  Why matching of CMIP5 model-simulated to observed warming does not indicate model skill A well-known Dutch journalist, Maarten Keulemans of De Volkskrant, recently tweeted an open letter to the Nobel-prizewinning physicist Professor Clauser in response...
• An interview with top climate scientist Bjorn Stevens
  by Nic Lewis This week Die Zeit published an interview with Bjorn Stevens. Die Zeit is the largest German weekly newspaper (circulation well over one million), and has a highly educated readership.   Bjorn Stevens is Director at the Max … Continue...
• Important new paper challenges IPCC’s claims about climate sensitivity
  by Nic Lewis Official estimates of future global warming may be overstated. A brief summary in press release style of my new paper (written in the third person) One of the most important conclusions of the recent 6th Assessment Report … Continue...
• Complaint of Breach of Poynter Institute Principles on the Part of the Far-Left “Climate Feedback” Propaganda Website
  Complaint of breach of Poynter Institute principles on the part of the far-Left “Climate Feedback” propaganda website
• EMails: Facebook Sics its “Independent Fact Checker” on Disfavored Speech
  . Censorship over COVID claims seems to be merely an excuse to scratch a much bigger itch. Emails obtained under state open records laws show that this expansion is increasingly ominous and being underwritten at least in part by the taxpayer.
• Comment by Cowtan & Jacobs on Lewis & Curry 2018 and Reply: Part 2
  By Nic Lewis In an earlier article here I discussed a Comment on Lewis and Curry 2018 (LC18) by Kevin Cowtan and Peter Jacobs (CJ20), and a Reply from myself and Judith Curry recently published by Journal of Climate (copy … Continue reading →
• Gregory et al 2019: Unsound claims about bias in climate feedback and climate sensitivity estimation
  By Nic Lewis The recently published open-access paper “How accurately can the climate sensitivity to CO2 be estimated from historical climate change?” by Gregory et al.[i] makes a number of assertions, many uncontentious but others in my view...