Amplifying feedbacks leading to accelerated planetary temperatures by Andrew Glikson “The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges” (Wally Broecker) Many climate change models, including by the IPCC , appear to minimize or even neglect the amplifying feedbacks of global warming, which are pushing temperatures upward in a runaway chain reaction-like process, as projected by Wally Broecker and other : Lateral and vertical ice melt, including formation of water films on ice; Reduced CO2 intake by the warming oceans due to warming. Currently the oceans absorb between 35-42 percent of all CO2 emitted into the atmosphere and around 90 percent of the excess heat from the rise in greenhouse gases; Warming, desiccation, deforestation and fires over land areas ; Release of methane from permafrost and polar sediments; These feedbacks drive a chain reaction of events, accel...