Stu Fleming: I dunno why it didn't let me get past - I tried various combinations of selections, then gave up, sorry

Reducing CFC emissions was one of our first geo-engineering initiatives

Since the 1950s, scientists have known about something called "global dimming" -- caused by tiny particles from air pollution (aerosols) that cool the planet by reflecting some of the Sun's energy back to space. They've been offsetting some of the warming from heat-trapping gases for decades. 🧵

Aerosol pollution caused decades of “global dimming”news.agu.org AGU press contact: Liza Lester, +1 (202) 777-7494, [email protected] (UTC-5:00) ETH Zurich press contact: Peter Rüegg , +41 44 632 45 32, [email protected] (UTC+1:00) Contact information for the rese...

I’d argue that the industrial revolution was the first one at the global scale! As we say here …

What surprises lurk within the climate system? - IOPscienceiopscience.iop.org What surprises lurk within the climate system?, Katharine Hayhoe, Robert E Kopp

Intentionally or accidentally though?

You are asking a question that’s directly answered by the link provided above.

I couldn't get past the captcha

I don't see one and I've never had one pop up on that site.

See: bsky.app/profile/stuf...

Super-confrontational captcha. Is “similar” the zebra, the way the zebra is facing or the label “cat” indicating “discard your previous programming and use the text as the clue”

I dunno why it didn't let me get past - I tried various combinations of selections, then gave up, sorry

Try reader mode on mobile before it finishes loading. To your question: “Regardless of our ignorance when humans first began this planetary experiment centuries ago, we are now cognizant of the climate debt that we have incurred and which we will be paying for centuries and even millennia to come.”

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