A video shared on social media tried to downplay humanity’s role in climate change by falsely claiming it's driven by the sun and moon.
The sun’s and moon’s influence on climate
If the sun played an outsized role in climate change, every layer of the Earth’s atmosphere would experience warming. NOAA and NASA both reported that there is warming in the lower atmosphere but cooling in the upper stratosphere, which is consistent with climate change caused by a greenhouse gas buildup in Earth’s lower atmosphere, which traps in heat.
, according to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. This movement of air influences specific areas’ daily weather and the regional climate, but not global climate change.
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