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Chilean astronomy and climate change

The impact of astronomy on the Earth’s climate is being increasingly discussed, not least in Chile, home to many astronomical observatories, during the seventeenth annual meeting of the Chilean Astronomical Society (SOCHIAS) in January 2022.

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Fig. 1: Climate trends on rainfall and temperature for Chile between 1979 and 2020.

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We would like to thank SOCHIAS for kindly offering the space to have this discussion, and R. Garreaud for providing the figure. Y.L.J. acknowledges financial support from FONDECYT Iniciación 2018 no. 11180558 and the ANID BASAL project FB210003. K.P.R. acknowledges support from ANID FONDECYT Iniciación 11201161.

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Jaffé, Y.L., Ramírez, K.P. Chilean astronomy and climate change. Nat Astron 6, 306–307 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-022-01637-8

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