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[[File:Martin Luther King Jr NYWTS 4.jpg|thumbnail|''We are confronted with '''the fierce urgency of now'''. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history '''there is such a thing as being too late'''.'' - [[Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.]], 1967, "Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence"<ref>https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm</ref>]]
[[File:Martin Luther King Jr NYWTS 4.jpg|thumbnail|''We are confronted with '''the fierce urgency of now'''. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history '''there is such a thing as being too late'''.'' - [[Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.]], 1967, "Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence"<ref>https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm</ref>]]
<Blockquote>The American Meteorological Society defines a feedback as a sequence of interactions determining the response of the system to an initial change. In the climate system, a feedback is a process that can work as part of a loop to either lessen or add to the effects of a change in one part of the system. When a process helps keep components of the system in balance, it sets up a negative, or balancing, feedback loop. When a change in one part of the system causes changes in the same direction in other parts of the Earth system, a positive, or reinforcing, feedback loop occurs.<Ref>https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/earth-system/climate-system/feedback-loops-tipping-points</Ref></Blockquote>


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We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1967, "Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence"[1]


The American Meteorological Society defines a feedback as a sequence of interactions determining the response of the system to an initial change. In the climate system, a feedback is a process that can work as part of a loop to either lessen or add to the effects of a change in one part of the system. When a process helps keep components of the system in balance, it sets up a negative, or balancing, feedback loop. When a change in one part of the system causes changes in the same direction in other parts of the Earth system, a positive, or reinforcing, feedback loop occurs.[2]

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