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Facing the Truth About Climate Change
2015-02-04 03:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Republic: In June 1975, a Yale economist named William Nordhaus published a paper for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, an Austrian think tank. In the paper, he put forward a theory about a potentially globe-altering climate-change Red Line--a threshold that, if crossed, could result in a fusillade of environmental dangers. Research suggested that a rise in carbon-dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels might melt the Arctic Sea ice, prompting a dramatic increase in rain and...
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