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The book explores the politicization of the topic, the polarization of opinion, and the. But in the 1950s a few scientists found evidence that some changes in the past had taken only a few thousand years. Both humanmade and natural factors contribute to climate change. Mitchells depiction of the subsequent desperation and rapid descent into anarchy is bleak, if undeniably believable. Climate changeeffects wikibooks, open books for an open.
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