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    Is Human Activity the Primary Driver of Global Warming?

    I'm a non-scientist trying to understand a bit about climate science and the state of it. It's mysterious to me why so many people (some on both sides of most debates I see!) seem to treat this as though it were a religious issue and not a scientific one. 1. My understanding is that the...
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    Graduate Absolute Velocity of the Earth?

    A few questions from a non-scientist: From what I've read there is a dipole in the microwave background radiation. Does anyone consider this to be very significant? Were any scientists very surprised that there was such a dipole? Would it have been considered weird if the background...