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[Freakonomics] Just because unemployment has gone up and global warming concerns have gone down doesn’t mean that one caused the other. It’s more likely, in my opinion, that the spike seen in 2007 was the great interest people had in the subject, causing them to learn more about the subject, and realize the truth that man-made global warming is bunk.

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