Just under two weeks have passed since a record-setting blizzard dumped up to a foot and a half of snow across Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas. Love it or hate it, most surfaces still have ...

This creates a positive feedback loop where increased temperatures lead to more emissions, further warming the planet. It’s like turning up the thermostat on a heater that’s already too hot.

Some of the major positive feedback loops (positive here meaning something that amplifies, not something that has a positive outcome) they examined, loops that increase global warming, are the ...