Peter GleickDec 31, 2022
You see that thin line of light? That's the edge of the atmospheric skin surrounding our planet. All the climate occurs in that little collection of gases, and that's what we're flooding with greenhouse gas contaminants.
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The engineer and remote sensing scientist in me feels compelled to clarify that “that little collection of gasses” includes everything below the orange layer of ionized upper atmosphere.

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