Explain why climate sensitivity is not linear with the mass of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Climate sensitivity is measure that how much the earth's climate will cool or warm after a change in the climatic system '
Warming of the atmosphere is mostly affected by the quantity of co2 in the atmosphere , but it is a non linear relation due to two factors which are
1. There are other gases such as NO2 etc and other green house gases which in addition to CO2 also contribute to the warming of the atmosphere
2. There are in built feedback systems in the environment like water vapor feedback, ice albedo feedback , lapse rate feedback etc
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