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Could you live without coffee? Drinking it is a ritual for many of us, including meteorologist Alexandra Steele. In this new video, she talks with experts who share how climate change is harming coffee and other crops around the world — and what we can do to protect our favorite foods and drinks.

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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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