Global warming and climate change are serious environmental issues. This site provides information on the debate, causes, effects and possible solutions around climate change, as well as sustainable lifestyles around Earth's finite resources
 

CAUSES OF CLIMATE CHANGE & GLOBAL WARMING

Climatologists agree that the earth has warmed recently. While the detailed causes of this change remain an active field of research, scientific consensus identifies greenhouse gases as the primary cause of the recent warming. Outside of the scientific community, however, this conclusion can be controversial.

 

These fact sheets explore identified and proposed causes of climate change, and explore some of the controversies in this area.
   
 
Reliance on burning of fossil fuels in a major part of human-induced global warming
 
 
   
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