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Impacts of high-altitude emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) compared to sea level GHG emissions
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Why is geothermal heat insignificant to surface temperature?
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Why are CO2 sensors so expensive when CO sensors aren't?
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What causes a rainbow, its colours and its shape?
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Most amenable coastal geographic conditions for harbors?
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Why aren't weather balloons left in the atmosphere permanently?
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How has the total area of continents changed during the Earth history?
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Why does the temperature change about every 50-100 meters near hills
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Does Earth's core actually turn "backwards" at times?
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Why is NaCl so hyper abundant in the ocean?
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What oxidised the soil on Mars?
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Have there been any studies on how vehicles directly contribute to a rising global temperature?
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How were the sea levels around western Europe during the Medieval Warm Period?
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Any other fumarolic ice caves in the literature? [closed]
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Formation of ice shape
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Does the 0m elevation height of a Digital Elevation Model (Copernicus DEM) correspond to mean sea level?
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Is it typically colder after a storm?
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Are there any (land) hills/mountains with bases below sea level?
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Was the filling of the Three Gorges Dam's impact on the Earth's rotation rate detectable?
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Are there minerals which are not been found on earth but which are still possible to exist?
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Who originated Taylor's axiom of lunar formation, and where?
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Is it safe to keep volcanic sulfur at home?
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Why had climate change not been proven beyond doubt for so long?
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Why do colder climates have more rugged coasts?
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How much carbon is sequestered out of the atmosphere through marine snow?
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Why are salt domes suitable for the final disposal of nuclear waste?
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What are these undersea lines all around Hawaii?
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How deep could the surface of the Earth's crust get?
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Composition of Martian Crust
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How plausible is it that "a portion of the ocean's floor" could suddenly be "thrown up to the surface" as described in this Lovecraft story?
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What are these underwater structures near 6°N 85°55'W
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In the northern hemisphere summer, why are places in the north cooler than those in the south?
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Taking into account the decay products of transuranic elements, are the world's uranium reserves growing or shrinking?
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What is the white coating "patina" we often see on deposited chalcedony/agate?
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How to statistically downscale wind speeds?
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Large scale structures in the Sahara – what are they?
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Argument for designing an ocean monitoring network based on satellite-derived chlorophyll-a concentration?
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What is the smallest grid spacing that Eulerian air quality models should use?
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Why don't errors accumulate in climate models when the time horizon increases?
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Why don't weather forecast models normally take solar eclipses into account?
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Geothermal instead of fossil and nuclear?
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Could the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum have been caused by intelligent life forms?
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What is the most important source of natural gas? Coal, oil or other?
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Why are there no volcanoes where continents collide with each other?
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Does the global temperature vary daily (hotter and colder days)?
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Why would it be drier indoors during the winter vs the summer?
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Is there a geological explanation for the recent Mammoth tusk discovery 185 miles off the California coast?
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Photo of sprites in a clear dark sky, how is this possible?
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Why is the sea salinity high in the Mediterannean and Red Sea and low in Indonesia and Malaysia?
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What are the striations or ridges in the eastern Pacific Ocean?
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If the Bennu asteroid were to hit within a 500 mile radius of Yellowstone National Park, will it trigger a super volcano at Yellowstone?
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Is volume of air increasing as CO2 levels increase?
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Carbon dioxide on Mars, Venus and Earth
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Why is the Arctic melting, but the Antarctic doing great?
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Has a hurricane or cyclone ever reformed after passing over a large land mass?
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How much worse is the typical subway air, compared to street-level air pollution, in a typical city?
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How does the ozone layer "stay in place"?
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Is there still a hole in the ozone layer?
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What are Atmospheric Rossby Waves and how do they affect the weather?
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Why did Hurricane Ida have so much precipitation when it reached the Northeast?
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