Guest column: Climate change is an urgent issue, action needed - Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Guest column: Climate change is an urgent issue, action needed | Guest Columnists | bozemandailychronicle.com
Like many Americans, we have a long list of issues we want Congress to address, but few are more urgent to us than the need to combat climate volatility which is resulting in more weather disruption, like last year’s catastrophic flooding.
Often, the loudest voices on climate are left-of-center, and there is a common falsehood that conservatives do not care about climate.
Most Americans do.
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Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
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.