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That is to say, if something (be it the release of a greenhouse gas, either human-made or natural) forces the climate to warm up, then these feedbacks will serve to amplify the net warming. 8c represents a biophysical feedback system of a different kind. This is an example of a negative-feedback system that dampens any net change in the climate. We have already referred to iron that can fertilise the oceans, which allows more algae to grow that in turn draws down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, so reducing the greenhouse effect and cooling the planet.
Within hemispheres is reasonably thorough. We can therefore be quite certain that our knowledge of this atmospheric part of the carbon cycle is fairly accurate. The problem of the missing carbon seems to be associated with one or more of the other carbon sinks: possibly the accumulation of carbon by terrestrial plants, or alternatively by absorption into the oceans. Nonetheless, the annual waxing and waning of atmospheric carbon dioxide does illustrate the power of the photosynthetic carbon pump (the power of plant and algal photosynthesis to drive the carbon cycle).
2 The greenhouse effect (early 21st century) global climate computer models to reproduce the likely effect of water vapour over a period of warming was given credence in 2005 by a US team of atmospheric scientists led by Brian Soden. 3 μm wavelength – which is part of water’s absorption spectrum and especially useful for measuring its presence in the upper troposphere – with climate models. The satellite measurements and the models showed a good correlation. Clouds (the suspension of fine water droplets in regions of saturated air) complicate the picture further still.