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India Election IPL 2024 videos Gravitas World India SHOWBIZ Lifestyle Sports Science LIVE TV Home India Election IPL 2024 videos Gravitas World India SHOWBIZ Lifestyle Sports Science Live TV Climate change fuels global floods WION Video Team | Updated: May 13, 2024, 02:25 PM IST The relentless march of climate change is leaving its mark on nations far and wide. From China to Afghanistan, Indonesia to Brazil, all of them reel from floods.

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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. 

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