If we listen to the coal, gas, and oil industry experts, we have nothing to worry about. The increase in greenhouse gases that trap heat and make the planet warmer is the result of long natural cycles which in due time will reverse themselves. Lobbyists and contributors to super PACs who support the election and re-election of members of Congress have convinced the majority of that body that the fossil-fuel-burning industries have nothing to do with global warming.The fact that global warming has increased over the last 150 years as the burning of fossil fuels for electricity, heating, transportation, and industrial production has increased-not related to fossil fuels. The fact that global warming has increased by 10 percent since 1990-not related to fossil fuels. The fact that the burning of fossil fuels produces twice as much carbon dioxide a year as atmospheric processes can absorb-definitely not related to fossil fuels.
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