SRM (Solar Radiation Management) are causing “global dimming” on a scale that can hardly be comprehended. The sun is the only significant energy source for the global ecosystem. Essential for living conditions on Earth is the amount of sunlight that penetrates through the atmosphere and reaches Earth’s surface. This energy flow governs a wide range of physical and chemical processes. It heats our environments, induces pressure gradients and related wind systems, generates evaporation to fuel the global water cycle, melts away snow and ice, and enables photosynthesis and associated plant growth and cultivation. It thereby ensures the abundant supply of water and nutrition, as well as livable ambient temperatures, the essential ingredients for an inhabitable planet. Our habitats are therefore particularly sensitive and vulnerable to changes in the availability of solar energy at Earth’s surface.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 23:06:32 +0000
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