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       Some people think that global warming is caused by trees getting cut down. Others think it is the greenhouse effect. One may think aliens lie behind global warming.Distant view of Dunes and Sangre de Christo mountains in late afternoon. Great Sand Dunes National Park

        Electrical pollution is caused by refrigerators, computers, Television sets, you name it. Anything that uses batteries may cause global warming, too.

        Most scientists believe that human actions do NOT cause global warming. However, there is  a 17% who think global warming is caused by human actions.

      

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The greenhouse effect is the rise in temperature that the Earth experiences because certain gases in the atmosphere (water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane, for example) trap energy from the sun.