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Scientific research now
demonstrates that the Earth’s climate is warming at an unprecedented
rate, with a growing body of evidence pointing to humans as largely
responsible for enhancing the Earth’s natural greenhouse effect and
accelerating the rate of global warming.
Activities causing this warming to occur include the burning of
fossil fuels for transportation and industrial operations – which
results in the emission of the heat-trapping greenhouse gas carbon
dioxide (CO2) – and the destruction of carbon-sequestering
forests.
This matters because
rising global temperatures, if not dealt with, could result in
significant impacts in Los Angeles, including flooding of low-lying
property, loss of beaches and coastal wetlands, saltwater contamination
of coastal underground drinking water supplies, a rise in ground-level
ozone (which aggravates existing respiratory ailments), and increases in
heat-related illnesses.
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