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Fact Check-Study on Greenland warming does not contradict human-driven climate change
A study conducted by Japanese scientists found that Pacific Ocean events can affect temperatures in Greenland, but the results did not suggest that these local patterns are more potent than the overall warming power of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide generated by human activity.
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State of Play
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.