In the following viewpoint, Robert T. Watson claims that the overwhelming majority of scientific experts believe that human activity is causing global warming through the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Watson maintains that the global warming trend recorded throughout the twentieth century is extreme and atypical, particularly when contrasted with earth’s relatively stable climate during the past ten thousand years. Human-induced global warming will put more stress on ecological and economic systems already adversely affected by pollution and poor management, in the...
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