Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-212) and index.
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Is global warming a scientifically proven phenomenon? There is overwhelming scientific consensus that global warming is happening and humans are causing it / Union of Concerned Scientists ; The fundamental scientific conclusions about global warming are compelling / Peter Gleick and 187 other members of the US National Academy of Sciences ; Cooling the warming debate / Richard A. Muller ; The CERN study does not disprove human-caused global warming / Glenn Wright ; New research suggests that global warming will still be dangerous, though not extremely so / Andrew Freedman ; NO: Global Warming is not a scientifically proven phenomenon / The BEST study did not address whether humans are causing global warming / Peter Ferrara ; The BEST study hid the critical fact that global warming has stopped in recent years / David Rose ; The CERN study demonstrates that nature, not humans, controls the earth's temperatures / Chriss W. Street ; The science shows there will be no apocalyptic global warming / Patrick Michaels -- Are global warming skeptics motivated by science? The number of scientists questioning global warming is growing / Claude Allegre ... [et al.] ; Global-warming science is merely a working hypothesis / Gary M. Vasey ; Global-warming science is new and untested / Evan Sayet ; The scientific and policy debate about global warming has just begun / Karin McQuillan ; NO: Global warming skeptics are not motivated by science / Scientists who deny global warming rely on falsehoods and out-of-date research / Joe Romm ; Global warming skeptics are motivated by ideology, not science / Phil Plait ; Skeptics are free-market fundamentalists who seek to undermine scientific evidence of global warming / Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway ; The fossil fuel industry is funding global-warming denial / Bill McKibben ; Conservative Republicans are in denial about global-warming science / Michael Stafford -- What are the predicted impacts of global warming? Many climate impacts predicted by the IPCC are already happening / National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Snow and ice are decreasing in the Northern Hemisphere at twice the rate predicted by climate models / Pete Spotts ; US farmers dodge the impacts of global warming, at least for now, Stanford researcher says / Louis Bergeron ; Global warming is increasing world food prices / Damian Carrington ; Global warming will likely cause serious human health effects / Thilaka Ravi ; Global warming poses a grave threat to wildlife / E. Jean Brennan ; Global warming could create security challenges for the US military / Keith Randall -- What actions should be taken to address global warming? National and subnational efforts, rather than international agreements, are the best way to address global warming / Harald Heubaum, as told to Responding to Climate Change ; The world should end fossil fuel subsidies to achieve emission reductions / Matthew Yglesias ; Efforts to slow global warming should focus on methane and soot instead of carbon dioxide / R.P. Siegel ; Governments must support new green energy technologies more quickly / Institution of Mechanical Engineers ; Geoengineering research should be pursued as a solution to global warming / Dan Vergano ; The world should not waste resources on fighting global warming / Richard S. Lindzen ; Only immediate action will keep global warming below dangerous levels / Richard A. Kerr.
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