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Here is a partial list of entities and people who accept that human activity is causing dangerous changes in the earth ' s climate.195 sovereign nations (participants in theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). That is every country on earth including the Democratic People ' s Republic of Korea. It also includes countries whose economies are heavily dependent on fossil fuel extraction, such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The Saudis are planning to leave much of their oil in the ground. Exxon Mobil Corporation (although they lied about it for decades)Former Exxon CEO and current U.S. Secretary of State Rex TillersonVirtually every scientist who works in a relevant field. (The commonly cited figure is actually 97% but the work of the 3% has been discredited.)The only major political party on the earth that does not accept this reality is the Republican party in the U.S.  Conservative parties everywhere else do accept it.How do we know this is true? Actually, scientists have understood since the late 19th Century that the lower atmosphere is as warm as it is because of the presence of carbon dioxide.Arrhenius published this conclusion in 1896, and he later noted that burning fossil fuel would increase the CO2 in the atmosphere, presumably warming the climate. This is completely understood and it is quite straightforward. The atmosphere is largely transparent to visible and UV light. The sun ' s light warms the ground which then radiates heat back as infrared, to whic...
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