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“Earth’s rate of global warming is the equivalent of 400,000 Hiroshima bombs a day” (James Hansen, NASA’s former chief climate scientist, 2012) “Earth is now substantially out of energy balance. The amount of solar energy that Earth absorbs exceeds the energy radiated back to space. The principal manifestations of this energy imbalance are continued global warming on decadal time scales and continued increase in ocean heat content” (Hansen 2018).
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Glikson, A.Y. (2021). Greenhouse Gases and Mass Extinctions. In: The Event Horizon: Homo Prometheus and the Climate Catastrophe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54734-9_2
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