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"[R]isk increases with increases in both the rate and the magnitude of climate change."
Scientific consensus on climate change(SRM) involves large-scale methods... is untested and is not included — Scientific consensus on climate change
"(SRM) involves large-scale methods... is untested and is not included in any of the mitigation scenarios. If it were deployed, SRM would entail numerous uncertainties, side effects, risks and shortcomings... If it were terminated [after and if once begun], there is high confidence that surface temperatures would rise very rapidly impacting ecosystems..."
Scientific consensus on climate change
Scientific consensus on climate change
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There is scientific consensus that the Earth has been consistently warming since the start of the Industrial Revolution, that the rate of recent warming is largely unprecedented, and that this warming is mainly the result of a rapid increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by human activities. The human activities causing this warming include fossil fuel combustion, cement production, a
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