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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Definitions:

Frequency Distribution

A summary of how often different values or ranges of values occur in a dataset.

Cumulative Percent

The percentage that represents the sum of its own and all previous categories in a frequency distribution.

Arrests

A term signifying the act of detaining someone legally as a suspect in a criminal activity.

Cumulative Percent

A measure that calculates the percentage total up to a specific point in a series of data, showing the accumulation of a quantity over time.