Is climate change a vicious circle? My question refers to the current process of climate change. CO2 is rising, which leads to the greenhouse effect, which raises temperatures. This leads to more wildfires, which reduces number of trees, increasing CO2 and reducing CO2 capacity absorption. Ice caps start to melt, which reduces sunlight reflection (less snow), trapping more heat on atmosphere. Water rises, taking over land and trees, further enhancing the CO2 absorption capacity. Oceans acidify, lowering their CO2 absorption capacity too. Etc etc.

It seems the process of climate change is a "vicious circle", with a lot of feedback loops reinforcing the trends.

Is this the case? Are there counteracting forces that go against this circle?

Related questions which imo do not provide an answer to this one: here, here.
There are indeed a lot of positive feedback mechanisms, i.e. a warm climate leads to a warmer climate. From this Wikipedia article, they are:

Carbon cycle feedbacks
Cloud feedback
Gas release
Ice-albedo feedback
Water vapor feedback

However, there are also a few negative feedbacks (same source):

Blackbody radiation
Carbon cycle
Lapse rate
Impacts on humans

Now the question is: what is the net budget between positive and negative feedbacks? To assess this, climatologists use some metrics, the main ones being &quot;transient climate response&quot; (TCR) and &quot;equilibrium climate sensitivity&quot; (ECS). From Knutti et al. (2017):

TCR is defined as the global mean surface warming at the time of
doubling of CO$_2$ in an idealized 1% yr$^{−1}$ CO$_2$ increase
experiment, but is more generally quantifying warming in response to a
changing forcing prior to the deep ocean being in equilibrium with the
forcing. Based on state-of-the-art climate models, and instrumentally
recorded warming in response to CO$_2$ and other anthropogenic and
natural forcings, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's
Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC AR5) assessed that the transient climate
response is 'likely' (&gt;66% probability) to be in the range of 1 °C to
2.5 °C.
By contrast, the equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) is defined as
the warming response to doubling CO$_2$ in the atmosphere relative to
pre-industrial climate, after the climate reached its new equilibrium,
taking into account changes in water vapour, lapse rate, clouds and
surface albedo. [...] The estimated range of ECS has not changed much
despite massive research efforts. The IPCC assessed that it is
'likely' to be in the range of 1.5 °C to 4.5 °C.

Which basically means that the climate will get warmer in the future, until it will eventually reach some kind of equilibrium.