The use of global-scale technological fixes to counter climate change by either removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere or by changing the amount of sunlight that reaches Earth is called ____

a. the Kyoto Protocol
b. geoengineering
c. radiative forcing
d. radiative equilibrium
e. plate tectonics


ANSWER: b

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A) hydrogen B) water vapor C) helium D) argon

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