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 Warming the world [1]

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This year is the hottest year since temperature records have been kept. Scientists believe that the Earth is getting warmer because of the build-up of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, produced largely by the burning of fossil fuels. The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, an international group of scientists, has projected that the surface temperature of Earth could rise by about 1

Publication Date: 
Tuesday, September 29, 1998
Down to Earth [2]
Volume No: 
7
Issue No: 
19980930
Tags:
Climate Change [3], Global Warming [4], Fossil Fuels [5], Scientists [6], Statistics [7]
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