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Suggestion for Edit [Not a “request for edit” which appears to require more steps than I will do. The following defines global warming as the cause of climate change although in common usages those terms are used interchangeably.(*1)]

Where – to the first sentence of the third paragraph of the entry “Climate Engineering.”

Replacement sentence #1 = “Climate engineering approaches fall into mitigation and adaptation strategies for limiting climate change or its impacts.” Current sentence = “Climate engineering approaches are sometimes viewed as potential options for limiting climate change or its impacts, alongside mitigation and adaptation.[7][4]”

Why = the current sentence can be interpreted as three ways of addressing cause [global warming] and effect [climate change] because of the phrase “alongside mitigation and adaptation.” Climate engineering is a subset of mitigation.

Replacement sentence #2, based on Why #2 = “Climate engineering approaches are mitigation strategies for limiting or reducing global warming growth which in turn limits the impact of climate change.”  [No reference to adaptation.]

Why #2 = the definition given in footnote # 4 says “… as the deliberate large-scale intervention in the Earth’s climate system, in order to moderate global warming.”

Mitigation is about cause [global warming] and adaptation is about result [climate change.]

There is no reference to dealing with the impacts of climate change. The IPCC glossary says mitigation is “A human intervention to reduce emissions or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases.” For adaptation the glossary says “In human systems, the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate and its effects ….”  Climate engineering can affect cause, global warming, but is not an adaptive action to climate change; climate change is the result of global warming.

[Final note – there are projections that, hopefully accurate, emissions will be stopped in this century and negative emissions will be the function of mitigation thus the wording “…limiting or reducing…” in replacement sentence #2.] (*1) “Although people tend to use these terms interchangeably, global warming is just one aspect of climate change. “Global warming” refers to the rise in global temperatures due mainly to the increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. “Climate change” refers to the increasing changes in the measures of climate over a long period of time – including precipitation, temperature, and wind patterns.”

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-difference-between-global-warming-and-climate-change-1?qt-news_science_products=0#qt-news_science_products

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