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Causes and effects, of global warming, climate change. This change has disturbed the climatic pattern of the earth. Global warming global warming ice melt and sea level rise. The theory that global climatic change, surface warming in particular, is increasingly caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning. In his book on the politics and science of global warming, hot talk, cold science, s. Morano has a new book that has quickly climbed the bestseller list on amazon. Once upon a time, global warming was not controversial.
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