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How cleaning up shipping cut pollution — and warmed the planet

Grist

Yet, it’s had the unintended consequence of ramping up near-term global warming. On March 4, 2009, the skies over the northeast Pacific Ocean were streaked with clouds that form around the particles in ship exhaust. Low-lying ozone persists for a few weeks at most, and methane disappears within a decade.

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Planetary Boundaries, Food and Humanity

Unsustainable

The nine planetary Boundaries are: Stratospheric ozone: filters ultraviolet rays (UVR) coming from the sun, which would otherwise place the system is at risk. 2009; Steffen, W., We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C

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The Overview Effect

Grist

In interviews afterward, Shatner made a plea for the planet as TV hosts tried to steer him toward topics lighter than death and global warming. A half-century later, ex-NASA astronaut José Hernández said that the view aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 2009 turned him into “an instant treehugger.”.

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Inside the University of Chicago’s controversial solar geoengineering initiative

Grist

Adding sulfate aerosols to the stratosphere would degrade the ozone layer (thereby increasing global cancer rates) and increase acid rain. Whether the world is warming up to the idea of solar geoengineering wasn’t something the people interviewed for this article could agree on. Keith still leans towards the latter. “I