The Current Empirical Evidence Indicates That

question 47

Multiple Choice

The current 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 definitely the cause of global warming.
• C) if global warming continues as most models predict, then in the next 100 years the sea levels clearly will rise by more than 10 feet.
• D) none of the above is true.

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