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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 20 August 2019 and 3 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Mleggett8. Peer reviewers: Cli681.

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Included below is the start i have for my bibliography. Please let me know if anyone feels I need to make any changes.

Bibliography Round 1

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Stevens, Graeme (2005) "Cloud Feedbacks in the Climate System: A Critical Review". Journal of Climate 18: 237-273 https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-3243.1 --Mleggett8 (talk) 19:10, 17 September 2019 (UTC)Mleggett8Reply

I assume you know how to use these references in the article, as described in WP:Referencing for beginners. Dbfirs 19:46, 17 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

Much of this probably better belongs on the separate page climate change feedback. SaffyLane (talk) 03:43, 14 July 2021 (UTC)Reply

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Prior to a recent edit by User:T_g7 there was two full paragraphs in section Negative feedback#Environmental science discussing what was understood to be a *negative* feedback phenomenon. But now after the edit, the section is no longer focused on negative feedback specifically but is simply the following three sentences that doesn't really help the article:

> A basic and common example of a feedback system in the environment is the interaction among cloud cover, plant growth, solar radiation, and planet temperature. In the past, this was thought to be negative feedback. However, the current consensus is that the net effect of cloud feedback on climate change is positive, not negative, with "high confidence".

I don't have much ability to assess the cited material because it is outside of my field of study. But this section does have a problem now, because it isn't actually explaining a clear example of negative feedback, when this section should have a clear-to-understand non-debatable example of negative feedback in the environment. So maybe someone with knowledge on this subject could either instead provide a different non-controversial example of negative feedback, or rewrite the section to focus more simply on the negative feedback component(s) of this. Or if this environmental stuff is too complicated to explain in a sub-heading, then maybe just leave it out entirely. Em3rgent0rdr (talk) 03:22, 19 August 2026 (UTC)Reply