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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

The most important problem with the sun-climate explanation is that there has been no long-term change in either solar activity or cosmic radiation over the last hundred years that can explain the global warming we are now seeing. It’s urgent to fix our climate problem In August, the global mean temperature was close to 1.5°C

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We are not reaching 1.5ºC earlier than previously thought

Real Climate

In fact at the peak of the 2015-16 El Niño event, global anomalies for individual months already exceeded 1.5?. Similarly, the 1.5ºC goal in the Paris Agreement is not a betting game of where we will end up with maximum temperatures. 2 of the Paris Agreement as “pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5ºC”.

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Using Clouds to Fight Climate Change

HumanNature

But if they are thin and transparent, they reflect very little sunlight and instead trap a lot of the heat radiating from the Earth, resulting in a net warming effect. The Paris Agreement is an international treaty adopted at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015, with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C

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The ITLOS Advisory Opinion and Marine Geoengineering: More Questions, Few Answers

Law Columbia

The second category of marine geoengineering activities, known as solar radiation management or modification (SRM), do not directly target GHGs. The first, known as greenhouse gas (GHG) removal , seeks to mitigate climate change by pulling GHGs – most commonly carbon dioxide – out of the atmosphere and durably storing them.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Greenhouse gas : A group of gases known to be responsible for increasing the “greenhouse effect” - that is, gases that absorb infrared radiation and increase atmospheric density. Ozone layer : A protective layer of gas in the upper atmosphere that absorbs the sun's must harmful radiation.