Global Warming Controversy

Title: Global Warming Controversy
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Global Warming Controversy

Global Warming Controversy The global warming controversy is a long-running dispute about human effects - past, present and future - on climate. The starting point is whether there has been significant global warming caused by industrial emissions of carbon dioxide. But this alone would be a scientific argument confined to the scientific press. The point that leads to major controversy - because it could have significant economic impacts - is whether action (usually, restrictions on the use of fossil …showed first 75 words of 1217 total…

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