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Description20200101 Global warming - climate change - causes effects feedback.png
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Block diagram indicating primary causes and wide-ranging effects, including feedback, of global warming and climate change.
Of course, other elements and causal paths (arrowed connecting lines) could have been included, but are omitted to keep the diagram reasonably simple for a lay audience.
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The primary [[Attribution of recent climate change|causes]]<ref name=NASAcauses_2019>{{cite web |title=The Causes of Climate Change |url=https://climate.nasa.gov/causes/ |website=climate.nasa.gov |publisher=NASA |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221010331/https://climate.nasa.gov/causes/ |archivedate=December 21, 2019 |url-status=live | ref = }}</ref> and the wide-ranging [[Effects of global warming|effects]]<ref name=NCA4_volume1_2017>{{cite web |title=Climate Science Special Report / Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Volume I |url=https://science2017.globalchange.gov/ |website=science2017.globalchange.gov |publisher=U.S. Global Change Research Program |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214141932/https://science2017.globalchange.gov/ |archivedate=December 14, 2019 |url-status=live| volume=I }}</ref><ref name=IPCC_Summary_2016>{{cite web |title=Summary for Policymakers |url=https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/3/2019/11/03_SROCC_SPM_FINAL.pdf |website=ipcc.ch |publisher=Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101021958/https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/3/2019/11/03_SROCC_SPM_FINAL.pdf |archivedate=January 1, 2020 |date=2019 |p=6 |url-status=live }}</ref> of global warming and resulting climate change. Some effects constitute feedback mechanisms that intensify climate change and move it toward [[Tipping points in the climate system|climate tipping points]].<ref name=NASA_IntegratedSystem>{{cite web |title=The Study of Earth as an Integrated System |url=https://climate.nasa.gov/nasa_science/science/ |website=nasa.gov |publisher=NASA |date=2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161102022200/https://climate.nasa.gov/nasa_science/science/ |archivedate=November 2, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Which yields the following citations:
"The Causes of Climate Change". climate.nasa.gov. NASA. Archived from the original on December 21, 2019.
"Climate Science Special Report / Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Volume I". science2017.globalchange.gov. U.S. Global Change Research Program. Archived from the original on December 14, 2019.
"Summary for Policymakers" (PDF). ipcc.ch. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 19, 2019.
"The Study of Earth as an Integrated System". nasa.gov. NASA. 2016. Archived from the original on November 2, 2016.
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