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Article: Emerging issues: global warming claims and coverage issues.
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- Defense Counsel Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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I. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE POLARIZING AREA OF GLOBAL WARMING
THE ISSUE of global warming or climate change remains a polarizing subject and a continuing source of heated political, social, and economic debate. On one end of the spectrum, there are those who subscribe to the belief that global warming poses a devastating threat to continued life on the planet. This group points to the intensified hurricanes that have battered the South in the last few years (Katrina, Rita, and others), flooding coastlines, the raging wildfires in the West, the El Nino phenomenon, droughts in Africa, rising sea levels in Asia, and a host of other matters as signs of a serious ...