Human-caused climate change is fueling global weather extremes, new study says - CBS News
Human-caused climate change is fueling global weather extremes, new study says - CBS News
Human-caused climate change is fueling global weather extremes, new study says
A new study suggests the world's record-hot summer might be the coolest one we have left, unless planet-warming emissions are cut dramatically. CBS News' senior national and environmental correspondent Ben Tracy reports.
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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.