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People are Warming the Planet

Living on Earth
August 14, 2013

    For the first time a United Nations panel of leading climate scientists concludes in a draft report that predictions of human induced global warming appear to be coming true. Host Steve Curwood examines some of the research which has led scientists to this conclusion  ? including data on the earth’s recent rash of extreme weather.

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