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The unsuccessful Democratic candidate for President in 2000, [[Al Gore]], won a [[Nobel Prize]] in 2007 for claiming that there is a dangerous man-made global warming that threatens the world.  Neither he nor his supporters admit that a rapid cooling in temperatures is being observed.
 
The unsuccessful Democratic candidate for President in 2000, [[Al Gore]], won a [[Nobel Prize]] in 2007 for claiming that there is a dangerous man-made global warming that threatens the world.  Neither he nor his supporters admit that a rapid cooling in temperatures is being observed.
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==The science of global warming==
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Increased concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere lead to slight increases in atmospheric temperature, but the main factor is water in the form of [[water vapor]] and [[cloud cover]].
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Historically, variations in global air temperature have been followed centuries later by corresponding changes in carbon dioxide levels. Thus, temperature drives carbon dioxide.
    
==Controversy==
 
==Controversy==
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