![]() ![]() Nobody knows how much of the present warming trend might be a natural phenomenon.We are also in the midst of a natural warming trend that began about 1850, as we emerged from a four-hundred-year cold spell known as the “Little Ice Age.”.Atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing, and human activity is the probable cause.In every debate, all sides overstate the extent of existing knowledge and its degree of certainty. We know astonishingly little about every aspect of the environment, from its past history, to its present state, to how to conserve and protect it.But I have had an opportunity to look at a lot of data, and to consider many points of view. ![]() I have been reading environmental texts for three years, in itself a hazardous undertaking. ![]() A novel such as State of Fear, in which so many divergent views are expressed, may lead the reader to wonder where, exactly, the author stands on these issues. ![]()
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