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Space tourism to accelerate climate change

Scientists predict that soot from commercial space flight will change global temperatures.

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  1. Ross, M., Mills, M. & Toohey, D. Geophys. Res. Lett. advance online publication doi:10.1029/2010GL044548 (2010).

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Mann, A. Space tourism to accelerate climate change. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.558

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