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Climate activist sticks protest poster to famous Monet painting
A climate activist was arrested on Saturday after sticking a poster over an iconic Claude Monet painting at the Orsay Museum in Paris, France. (Credit: Riposte Alimentaire via Storyful)
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What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.