Sentences with phrase «intense global debate»

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In 2005 MIT climatologist Kerry Emanuel stirred intense debate with a study indicating that global warming had caused hurricanes to nearly double in strength since the 1970s.

For those old enough to remember, the debate over global warming may be reminiscent of the equally intense scare propaganda lasting for several years during the 1980s.

For more than a week, the episode has fueled a fierce debate on the blogosphere and in newspaper opinion columns and once again placed global warming science under intense scrutiny.

Despite intense debate in Congress on global warming, the research found broad public agreement on the issue and its remedies.

The observed global - warming rate has been nonuniform, and the cause of each episode of slowing in the expected warming rate is the subject of intense debate.