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Burning fossil fuels ‘COOLS planet’, says NASA

BURNING fossil fuels and cutting down trees causes global COOLING, a shock new NASA study has found. By Jon Austin Major theories about what causes temperatures to rise have been thrown into doubt after NASA found the Earth has cooled in areas of heavy industrialisation where more trees have been lost and more fossil fuel burning takes place. Environmentalists have long argued the burning of fossil fuels in power stations and for other uses is responsible for global warming and predicted temperature increases because of the high levels of carbon dioxide produced – which causes the global greenhouse effect. While… View Article