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. How much energy is bouncing back into space?

. How much energy is bouncing back into space?-example-1
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Overall, about 30 percent of the energy sent to Earth bounces back into outer space, stabilizing the global thermostat. But climate change could upend that balance. Scientists developed a ratio, called albedo, to describe just how much solar energy any given surface reflects.



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