The greenhouse hypothesis, the reasons for the present global warming and the merits of the Kyoto Protocol are subject to heated debate. Whereas some question what bizarre relations between science and government have allowed politicians to treat a highly controversial hypothesis as though it were proven, others supply the public and the politicians with what appears akin to propaganda in the name of science.
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