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Climate change is not a matter of faith
If opinion polls are right, fewer people "believe" in climate change now than a
few months ago, prior to the leak of emails from the University of East Anglia
and the emergence of embarrassing errors in one of the reports of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The science of global warming, it
seems, has taken a severe hit in terms of the public's credulity.
Yet as the latest scientific research makes clear, the evidence is,
A _______________about the role of humans in the observable increase in
global temperatures seen over the past half-century. For scientists it is not a
question of "belief", it is a question of observable fact and reasonable inference
based on a wealth of scientific data. The latest study by an international team
led by the Met Office's Hadley Centre reaffirms this position. The world is
warming, it is observed on every continent, and there is no natural explanation
B ______________.
Indeed, the scientists go further by showing that it is only when human activity
is put into their computer models of the climate C _____________. Man-made
CO2 emissions over the past century or more can explain the recent increase in
global temperature. No one has come up with a better explanation.
Some sceptics may dispute the data used in formulating global temperature
records. Others may argue D ______________ are not to be trusted, and a few
may hypothesise about some undiscovered cause. But there is now so much
evidence in favour of man-made global warming, from so many different peerreviewed
studies,
E ______________.
This is not to say that the science should never be questioned. Scepticism is after
all part of the scientific process. But the issue has gone beyond whether we
should simply "believe" in climate change. It is not a matter of faith. The
evidence for anthropogenic global warming is there for anyone to study.
F _____________ they need to come up with an equally powerful counterargument.
1. that can account for it.
2. that the case is overwhelming.
3. If sceptics are to merit our attention,
4. that an explanation becomes evident.
5. if anything, stronger than it ever was
6. If the forecast is not quite favourable,
7. that the computer models used in this analysis.
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