The Science of Earth's Climate Change

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FYI: 'The Climate System: Solar Radiation, Earth's Atmosphere, and the Greenhouse Effect.'

https://eesc.columbia.edu/courses/ees/climate/lectures/radiation_hays/.

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FYI: 'NASA: Global Climate Change & The Vital Signs of Earth',

https://climate.nasa.gov/.

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FYI.: "Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA."

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-11-06/solar-is-now-cheapest-electricity-in-history-confirms-iea/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=solar-is-now-cheapest-electricity-in-history-confirms-iea.

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FYI: "Is nuclear fusion the answer to the climate crisis?
Promising new studies suggest the long elusive technology may be capable of producing electricity for the grid by the end of the decade."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/28/nuclear-fusion-power-climate-crisis.

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FYI: "FYI: "EU pins hope on Norway raw materials discovery.
Norway has discovered a huge deposit of rare earth minerals. It's hoped that this can make the EU less dependent on China and Russia and boost the bloc's energy transition (away from fossil fuels)."

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-pins-hope-on-norway-raw-materials-discovery/a-56343829.

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FYI: "Ocean energy about to ride a wave.
Tidal and wave energy is a greatly underutilized renewable power source that could be the missing link to a carbon-free future. "

https://www.dw.com/en/ocean-energy-about-to-ride-a-wave/a-56316422.

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FYI: "'Making Peace With Nature:'
A new UN blueprint offers an integrated 'peace plan' to tackle three interlinked environmental emergencies — the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and pollution — that cannot be solved in isolation."

https://www.dw.com/en/making-peace-with-nature/a-56615328.

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FYI: "Earth's magnetic field broke down 42,000 years ago and caused massive sudden climate change."

https://phys.org/news/2021-02-earth-magnetic-field-broke-years.html.

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FYI: "Earth's magnetic field broke down 42,000 years ago and caused massive sudden climate change."

https://phys.org/news/2021-02-earth-magnetic-field-broke-years.html.

FYI: "The Eötvös effect,"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%C3%B6tv%C3%B6s_effect.

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FYI: "Porsche to produce fuel 'as clean' as electric vehicles:
Although the German luxury carmaker is making huge investments in electromobility, Porsche says its cleaner synthetic fuel will allow older models of its performance car range to stay on the road for longer."

https://www.dw.com/en/porsche-to-produce-fuel-as-clean-as-electric-vehicles/a-56787413.

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FYI: "A Remarkable Story of Resilience and Hope: Renewable Energy Smashes Records in 2020.
There is a huge amount to be done... The international community must look to this trend as a source of inspiration to go further."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/05/remarkable-story-resilience-and-hope-renewable-energy-smashes-records-2020.

Go Green Energy!

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FYI: "Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere reach record high:
Concentrations are 50% above pre-industrial levels despite dip in emissions during Covid pandemic",

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/07/carbon-dioxide-levels-in-atmosphere-reach-record-high.

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FYI: "'Making Peace With Nature:'
A new UN blueprint offers an integrated 'peace plan' to tackle three interlinked environmental emergencies — the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and pollution — that cannot be solved in isolation."

https://www.dw.com/en/making-peace-with-nature/a-56615328.

FYI: "Is the reforestation of the rain forest possible?
Ten years ago, 74 member countries of the United Nations gave themselves an enormous task: to restore 3.5 million square kilometers of the world’s rain forests by 2030. But how exactly will that be possible?"

https://www.dw.com/en/is-the-reforestation-of-the-rain-forest-possible/av-57186912.

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FYI: "Just 3% of world’s ecosystems remain intact, study suggests:
Pristine areas in the Amazon and Siberia may expand with animal reintroductions, scientists say."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/15/just-3-of-worlds-ecosystems-remain-intact-study-suggests.

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FYI: "Just 3% of world’s ecosystems remain intact, study suggests:
Pristine areas in the Amazon and Siberia may expand with animal reintroductions, scientists say."FY

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/15/just-3-of-worlds-ecosystems-remain-intact-study-suggests.

FYI: "Multi-billion euro lawsuits derail climate action.
An archaic energy treaty is being weaponized by big emitters to sue EU governments who are phasing out fossil fuels. Hundreds of billions of taxpayer funds could be redirected from climate action to corporate coffers."

https://www.dw.com/en/energy-charter-treaty-ect-coal-fossil-fuels-climate-environment-uniper-rwe/a-57221166.

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April 22: Happy Mother Earth Day!

FYI: "Humanity’s greatest ally against climate change is the Earth itself.
Ecosystems can draw down carbon and buffer us from the worst effects of climate change — but only if we protect them."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2021/04/22/earth-day-biodiversity/.

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FYI: "22 inventions that could (help) save the Earth",

https://www.businessinsider.com/inventions-save-earth-reduce-plastic-sea-garbage-turbine-whirlpool-2019-2.

Go Green Energy!

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FYI: "In 1988, U.S. scientist James Hansen went before Congress and testified about his research into the warming of the planet. More than 30 years later, Hansen’s prediction that the average global temperature could rise by about 1 degree Celsius (almost 2 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2019 has come to pass. His warning, and appeals for action from Hansen and others, went largely ignored by policymakers, despite an avalanche of confirmatory research from ensuing generations of climate scientists."

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/climate-change-scientists/.

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FYI: 'Moon ‘wobble’, rising seas to cause flooding surge: NASA study:
The combination of the Moon’s natural cycle and climate change is projected to cause flooding to surge in the 2030s.'

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/15/moon-wobble-rising-seas-to-cause-flooding-surge-nasa-study.

[Raiden Mitchell]

Thank you very much for the valuable and constructive articles that you share. For me, as a person who actively opposes the negative impact of the human factor on climate change, these articles are a very valuable source of information.