World Weather Attribution report: Climate change to intensify more frequent heatwaves - NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
World Weather Attribution report: Climate change to intensify more frequent heatwaves - NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
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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.