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Clouds' Effect on Climate Change Is Last Bastion for Dissenters
Description: For decades, a small group of scientific dissenters has been trying to shoot holes in the prevailing science of climate change. Over time, nearly every one of their arguments has been knocked down by accumulating evidence, and polls say 97 percent of working climate scientists now see global warming as a serious risk. Yet in recent years, the climate change skeptics have seized on one last argument that cannot be so readily dismissed. Their theory is that clouds will save us. [Source: New York Times]
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/science/earth/clouds-effect-on-climate-change-is-last-bastion-for-dissenters.html?_r=1
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Source: New York Times
Publish Date: 4/30/2012
Reading Level: Basic
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