As Heat Waves Spread, So Too Do Unruly Climate Protests | Mint - Mint
As Heat Waves Spread, So Too Do Unruly Climate Protests | Mint
As Heat Waves Spread, So Too Do Unruly Climate Protests
Summary
- Activists are taking radical steps to get governments to cut emissions, but worry about alienating some of those they hope to win over
Under cover of darkness, several climate protesters made their way onto a golf green in southern Spain earlier this month and filmed themselves pouring cement into a hole.
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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.