Empirical Evidence Indicates That

question 217

Multiple Choice

Empirical evidence indicates that

• A) changes in the earth's cloud cover will clearly enhance the warming effects of carbon dioxide.
• B) the increase in carbon dioxide, over thousands of years, is clearly the cause of global warming.
• C) if global warming continues for another century, as most models forecast, the sea levels will clearly rise substantially, imposing costs much larger than the cost of preventing the warming.
• D) the earth has warmed a little more than one degree Fahrenheit in the past century.

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