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A Dangerous Disruption

Legal Planet

First, the cooling from the reflective materials they will inject, for which they are already selling carbon credits, charging $10 per gram of SO 2 released (!) Pinatubo, widely used as an analogy for SAI, put about 15M tons of sulfur aerosols in the stratosphere and cooled the Earth a little less than 1°C over the following year.

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The Fuss about Methane

Legal Planet

There are even indications that near-term cuts might be easier to achieve for methane than for CO 2 , for a mix of technical, economic, and political reasons. Atmospheric concentrations. That small concentration of methane in the atmosphere makes an outsized contribution to global heating. Climate impact.

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Climatology: The Science of Global Weather Systems over the Long Term

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Satellites, for example, are used in meteorology to track weather systems and to monitor atmospheric fronts to predict what the weather will do next. Known as ENSO, they are opposite effects of the same process and are defined as an oscillation (a variation in magnitude) between the temperature of the atmosphere and the ocean.

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Climate Scientist Michael Mann Awarded More than $1 Million in Defamation Case

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But, Michael Mann is a well known climate scientist whose research in studying the “paleoclimate,” or ancient climate, has featured prominently in the politically charged debate about climate change. who referred to an article by Simberg article in his article. Unfortunately, this decade plus long case (.