The phrase
"irradiance increase" means that the amount of light or energy radiating or shining in a certain area has become greater or has intensified.
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[Response: You don't expect it to be completely the same since there are differences: GHGs cause stratospheric cooling,
solar irradiance increases cause warming there — GHGs have a very even effect across latitudes, solar is stronger in the tropics.
Estimated increases since 1675 are 0.7 %, 0.2 % and 0.07 % in broad ultraviolet, visible / near infrared and infrared spectral bands, with a total
irradiance increase of 0.2 %.
The authors also estimated that roughly half the observed warming from 1860 to the present could be attributable to
the irradiance increase.
However, if we cross off the oddballs here, we see that the second tier of the tree decomposes to just three mechanisms, solar
irradiance increase, albedo decrease, and heat reservoir release.
Before the satellite era, solar models differ on the degree of
irradiance increase.