"Many risky feedback loops amplify the need for climate action" - Ripple, Wolf, Lenton et. al. write in the journal "One Earth" that "Ultimately, even relatively modest warming is expected to increase the risk that various climatic tipping points will be crossed—causing large changes in the future state of Earth’s climate system, thereby adding further amplifying feedbacks ... In the worst case long-term scenario, interactions among feedback loops could result in an irreversible drift away from the current state of Earth’s climate to a state that threatens habitability for humans and other life forms.
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One of the main factors making climate change especially dangerous is the risk of amplifying climatic feedback loops. An amplifying, or positive, feedback on global warming is a process whereby an initial change that causes warming brings about another change that results in even more warming. Thus, it amplifies the effects of climate forcings—outside influences on the climate system such as changes in greenhouse gas concentrations. In part because of positive climate feedbacks, a very rapid drawdown in emissions will be required to limit future warming.

Full article -
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.01.004

Summary list of feedback loops -
https://www.cell.com/action/showFullTableHTML?isHtml=true&tableId=tbl1&pii=S2590-3322%2823%2900004-0

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