Despite the clamour of climate change deniers, the overwhelming scientific view is that anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO_2) are leading to an increasing instability of our climate. These emissions, around 240 billion tons since the start of the industrial revolution, are perturbing the natural cycles, which always cause the climate to change. The predictions are that these perturbations will get worse as the atmospheric concentration of CO_2 rises.
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