If you’ve followed recent news coverage of global warming, you know that the idea that burning fossil fuels is heating up the earth’s atmosphere—with potentially catastrophic results—recently has come under increased scrutiny. 
 
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Only a few months ago, the theory of manmade climate change was widely viewed as “settled science.” Policy options centered only on what steps to take and at what pace to pursue them. That’s no longer the case, although skeptics are hardly new to this issue. What happened to deflate this emerging consensus so quickly? A quick review of ...