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Based on graph 1, do you think the changes in solar intensity are a significant cause of the trend in global temperatures? Why or why not?

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No, because the increase in temperature on earth is mainly related to global warming generated by the release of greenhouse gases and the release of CO2 into the atmosphere.

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It is by action of man not because of the solar intensity

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Changes in solar intensity do not seem to contribute to the change in global temperatures. If they did, the temperatures would rise and fall with the Sun's energy. Instead, the global temperatures continue to rise despite the Sun's natural fluctuations.

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Human activity is the main cause of climate change. People burn fossil fuels and convert land from forests to agriculture. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, people have burned more and more fossil fuels and changed vast areas of land from forests to farmland.

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