Act on climate change

The federal government is curtailing programs meant to reduce the growing dangers of climate change, though a recent poll conducted in part by The Associated Press–NORC Center for Public Affairs Research indicated that 78 percent of Americans believe climate change is real.

It is puzzling that some politicians scoff at the obvious relationship between greenhouse gases and global warming. Nobel Prize winner Svante Arrhenius wrote in 1896 that carbon dioxide could cause warming of the Earth's surface. U.S. scientists began monitoring carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere in Hawaii in 1958 and have documented that levels have climbed from 315 parts per million to more than 420.

Warmer temperatures melt the polar ice caps, causing sea levels to rise. This contrib

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