The thermosphere usually drags space junk to its doom. As it thins, ruined orbits are a possibility Earth’s atmosphere is shrinking due to climate change and one of the possible negative impacts is that space junk will stay in orbit for longer,

Climate change is altering conditions in near-Earth space, which could limit the number of satellites that can reliably operate.

Greenhouse gas emissions are altering not just Earth's climate but also the environment of space. For decades, climate change research has focused on the troposphere, the layer of the atmosphere closest to the planet’s surface.