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  2. Climate change - Wikipedia

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    Climate change can also be used more broadly to include changes to the climate that have happened throughout Earth's history. [32] Global warming—used as early as 1975 [33] —became the more popular term after NASA climate scientist James Hansen used it in his 1988 testimony in the U.S. Senate. [34] Since the 2000s, climate change has ...

  3. Solar activity and climate - Wikipedia

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    The finding that solar activity was approximately the same in cycles 14 and 24 applies to all solar outputs that have, in the past, been proposed as a potential cause of terrestrial climate change and includes total solar irradiance, cosmic ray fluxes, spectral UV irradiance, solar wind speed and/or density, heliospheric magnetic field and its ...

  4. Effects of climate change - Wikipedia

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    Some climate change effects: wildfire caused by heat and dryness, bleached coral caused by ocean acidification and heating, environmental migration caused by desertification, and coastal flooding caused by storms and sea level rise. Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies. Changes to the climate system include an overall ...

  5. Solar radiation modification - Wikipedia

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    Proposed methods of reflecting more sunlight to reduce Earth's temperature. Solar radiation modification (SRM), also known as solar radiation management, or solar geoengineering, refers to a range of approaches to limit global warming by increasing the amount of sunlight (solar radiation) that the atmosphere reflects back to space or by reducing the trapping of outgoing thermal radiation.

  6. When the Telegraph asked Hamilton, the Silicon Ranch spokesperson, to discuss the potential project’s climate benefits, he responded, “Our company is focused on the economic development aspect ...

  7. IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - Wikipedia

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    The second part of the report, a contribution of working group II (WGII), was published on 28 February 2022. Entitled Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation & Vulnerability, the full report is 3675 pages, plus a 37-page summary for policymakers. [29] It contains information on the impacts of climate change on nature and human activity. [30]

  8. As Africa Climate Summit promotes solar, off-grid power ramps ...

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    She has installed a small solar system that powers five bulbs and a fan, and paying the installments every month is easy for her. In Nigeria, unlike Kenya, the use of solar power for industry is rare.

  9. List of climate change controversies - Wikipedia

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    For example, climatologist Kevin E. Trenberth has published widely on the topic of climate variability and has exposed flaws in the publications of other scientists. [6] [7] [8] For past debates and controversies on scientific details see for example: History of climate change science#Discredited theories and reconciled apparent discrepancies ...