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Letter: Talking to the climatically deaf

Published 14 September 2016

From Roy Harrison

It is simply undeniable that the greenhouse effect exists and causes the planet to warm. A calculation as far back as 1937 concluded that doubling the CO2 content of the atmosphere would raise global temperatures by 2 °C – a result that still stands.

We may have to wait a few years for an obvious natural indicator… £1,000,000 sea-front properties being demolished by the ocean should make good television.

Verwood, Dorset, England

Issue no. 3091 published 17 September 2016

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