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Texas A&M Atmospheric Science Professor Andrew Dessler says the weather will be getting warmer; a climate on steroids, in the future.

Climate records keep getting shattered; expert says this is the new normal

Texas A&M Atmospheric Science Professor Andrew Dessler says the weather will be getting warmer; a climate on steroids, in the future.

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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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