[MCN] Business Today -- What is albedo — and why should we care? "... could reshape life on the planet"

[Lance Olsen]

Earth is losing its natural cooling shield: How rising temperatures could reshape life on the planet <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.businesstoday.in/science/story/earth-is-losing-its-natural-cooling-shield-how-rising-temperatures-could-reshape-life-on-the-planet-549419-2026-08-15&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTYwMzE5Mzc3NjMwODQ1NzM4NDUyGjRiYjYwYzA2NGI2NGExZGM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3tm6vwCkBox7OICsNBqVxA>
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What is albedo — and why should we care? Albedo is a measure of how much sunlight a surface reflects back into space. Fresh snow and ice can ...

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" ‘Triage’ is a dirty word in some conservation circles, but like many dirty words, it describes something common. Whether they admit it or not, conservationists have long had to make decisions about what to save.

"As more and more admit it, open discussion about how the decisions are best made — by concentrating on particular species, or particular places, or absolute costs, or any other criterion — becomes possible. Whichever criteria come into play, one thing remains constant. The decisions have to be made quickly."


Emma Marris, "What To Let Go.” NATURE November 8, 2007

https://www.nature.com/articles/450152a.pdf

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Micheal Mann Aug 6, 2018 : “A new normal makes it sound like we have arrived in a new position, and that's where we're going to be. But if we continue to burn fossil fuels … We're going to get worse and worse droughts and heat waves and super storms and floods and wildfires.”

“… we're walking out onto a mine field. As we continue to move forward onto that mine field, as we continue to burn fossil fuels, we're likely to encounter more and more extreme and damaging and irreversible impacts on our climate.”


https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-making-wildfires-more-extreme-heres-how

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