The vicious cycles of a changing Arctic: Global-scale ecosystem-climate feedbacks

A butterfly flaps its wings in Africa… then one thing leads to another and here we are in this Ignite presentation discussing top of the world ecosystem-climate feedbacks. That’s because any climate-driven change might manifest itself in an obvious ecosystem impact, but understanding what that really means for the future requires unraveling the subsequent series of cascading effects that will ultimately result in a climate feedback. In order to model these feedbacks and thus improve our confidence in climate projections, y never equals ax plus b. No, this isn’t rocket science – it is actually much more complicated than that.