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Global warming could be key issue in 2016 election. He is author, coauthor, or coeditor of twelve books, including introducing medical anthropology. In cheap and clean, stephen ansolabehere and david konisky show that americans are more pragmatic than ideological in their opinions about energy alternatives, more unified than divided about their main concerns, and more local than global in their approach to energy. The noaa raw data shows no warming over the past century. Veronica white global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is. Howe traces the history of climate change from a scientific oddity in the late 1950s to a topic of fierce debate among politicians and environmental activists who fear that. Global warming 101 definition, facts, causes and effects of. Global warming and political intimidation university of. From unstable agriculture to the drought in california to melting ice sheets to extreme weather events and heat waves, climate change has disrupted virtually every corner of the world. Ice sets wintertime record low thanks to global warming, usa today, march 26, 2016. Climate scientists overwhelmingly agree that humans are causing recent global warming.
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