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Article: Global Warming.
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- Junior Scholastic
- Article date:
- November 27, 2000
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Hot, hot, hot! Earth's climate seems to get warmer every year. What's happening? And what can we do about global warming?
This past summer, a patch of ice one mile wide melted at the North Pole. Crops in Texas withered and died, fried by hot temperatures and a record-breaking eight weeks without rain. Severe drought allowed wildfires to burn millions of acres of forest across the West. Were these events caused by global warming?
Many scientists agree that global warming--the artificial heating of the atmosphere--is beginning to change the world's climate.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reports that the average ...