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Article: Scientists Remain Uncertain: `Global Warming' Science: Fact vs. Fiction.
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- Consumers' Research Magazine
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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For more than a decade now, consumers have been confronted with frequent warnings that our carbon-dioxide-producing, modern way of life contributes to global warming, and thus is setting up the world for climatic catastrophe--unless we do something to reverse course soon.
Nothing new here, but in recent months the warnings have taken on a heightened sense of urgency following reports that scientific authorities have answered some key questions about the underlying science behind global-warming estimates. This increased certainty, we have been led to believe, strengthens the case for "action" on global warming, which typically involves instituting policies to meet ...