1. Global Warming
Deforestation is in part the result of population expansion in the tropics and the use of land for agriculture and wood for energy. ... If present trends in the release of CO2 to the atmosphere continue, the preindustrial level of CO2 will increase another 30% in 50 years, and then double by the year 2100. ... Based on scientific experiments, if atmospheric CO2 were to double, the average global temperature would rise by between 3.5 and 4.5 C. ... This is smaller than the expected rise in mean global temperature for doubled CO2 by at least a factor of 4. ... NASA climatologists have shown ...
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