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We ended the last blog post with about half the Sun’s energy hitting the Earth. The question for this post is: what happens to it? Outgoing energy from the Earth, adapted from NASA’s Energy Budget diagram Not surprisingly, the Earth warms up and radiates heat and energy. But little of the Earth’s energy goes straight […]

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Climate change, despite its outsized impact on the planet, is still an abstract concept to many of us. That needs to change. My hope is that readers of this blog will develop a better understanding of...