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The causes and consequences of Global Warming

Over the 4.55 billion years or so that the Earth has been around, climate has fluctuated a lot. These fluctuations, however, were over long periods of time and totally natural, nothing like the Earth's current situation. We are used to hearing about "Ice Ages" but this time it is the total opposite, Global Warming. Many theories about how global warming came to be and what it causes are floating around in both the scientific and public communities. Renowned scientists in the field agree that the major causes of global warming are: burning fossil fuels and deforestation. These factors have led to an overall increase in the world's sea level, melting of glaciers as well as less predictable weather and increase spread of diseases.

First off, the major consensus among scientists is that the amount of carbon dioxide that the earth can "inhale" is at a point of saturation, meaning that there is simply too much carbon dioxide floating......

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