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climate feedback

cli·mate feed·back


noun 
Definition:
 
environmental process activated by climate change: an atmospheric, oceanic, or terrestrial process brought about as a direct result of changes in the energy balance between incoming solar radiation and outgoing infrared radiation from the Earth

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