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Anyone who doubts that there is any point in discussing any further the matter of climate change should take a look at NASA’s own website [1]. The section entitled Uncertainties: Unresolved Questions about Earth’s Climate disavows any sense that we do indeed know everything. While described almost casually as “just a few other important uncertainties about climate change,” it is a concise description of many hugely significant factors often cited by some to be understood with certainty! It is not as if NASA has minimized these issues, but they do point to a possible connection to astronomical research. And because the space agency is heavily involved in climate research, we should realize that astronomy is a growing part of it.
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Cooke, A. (2012). The Astronomical Connection. In: Astronomy and the Climate Crisis. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4608-8_1
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