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Not at all ... if the acidification is moving some positive feedback loops (and it seems it is) we have much less.

• ars 13y ago
  There are almost no positive feedback loops in nature, for the simple reason that they tend to get triggered by random variations and feedback on themself till they reach limit and convert to negative loops.
  • Daishiman 13y ago
    Try Siberian bog swamps releasing an amount of methane with effects equal to the US yearly emissions.
    • kbutler 13y ago
      "The fact that the ice core records do not seem full of methane spikes due to high-latitude sources makes it seem like the real world is not as sensitive as we were able to set the model up to be." http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/01/much-ado-about-methane/ http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/01/much-a...