Which of the Following Best Explains the Fact That Public

question 173

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best explains the fact that public belief that global warming posed a real threat faltered, despite evidence of global warming in droughts, crop failures, the collapse of fish stocks, and violent storms during the 1990s?

• A) The fossil fuel industry successfully mounted a public relations campaign challenging the legitimacy of the scientific basis of global warming.
• B) The public at large came to be distracted by the global economic recession.
• C) Scientists did not yet have the technology to determine the source of climatic changes.
• D) The emergence of a broad consensus among scientists from a variety of disciplines and countries that the earlier evidence had been misinterpreted.

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