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and it is a major cause of climate change. Global warming leads to ice melting and rising sea levels, loss of permafrost , stronger and longer heatwaves around the world, a higher frequency of extreme weather events, reduced soil moisture and droughts, dried-out vegetation and wildfires, water shortages, alteration of ocean biome due to rising ocean temperatures, and other effects.
Researchers have calculated a baseline for radiative forcing based on a year before the beginning of global industrialization. Compared to this baseline, radiative forcing can directly measure the ways recent human activities have changed the planet’s climate. In 1974, Russian climatologist Mikhail Budyko suggested that burning sulfur in the stratosphere could create a reflective haze that would throw sunlight back into space. This idea was tested in real life with the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991, whose debris formed a reflective aerosol cloud that reduced solar radiation by 10% and the average global temperature by 0.9ºF for almost two years.
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