The new data may become another flash point in the debate over the cause of rising temperatures.
Yet you deny that globalisation is the cause of rising inequality further down the earnings distribution (or of the rise in unskilled unemployment in Europe).
La Nina may be the underlying cause of the drought in the South, but rising temperatures from global warming make that drought more severe.
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The conclusion is clear: rising wages cannot be the cause of inflation.
The plaintiffs, property owners on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, accused the industrial companies of spewing greenhouse gases into the air and helping to cause global warming, rising waters, hurricanes and all manner of other natural disasters.
Contrary to the obvious assumption, rising fuel prices might actually cause the use of ships for freight, as manufacturers reduce fuel use not by shipping things shorter distances, but by relying more heavily on efficient sea freight at the expense of less efficient land- and air-based modes of transport.
The cause of this dietary adjustment may be related to climate change, with rising temperatures documented in the Bering Sea at that period perhaps driving the movements of fish populations.
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Forecasters are warning of serious flooding across many parts of the UK as rising temperatures cause snow to thaw and rain moves in.
General Secretary Russell Hobby said the cause of recruitment problem was a combination of the negative "rhetoric that the profession was subject to, the ever-rising targets and the fear of Ofsted is a huge trigger for this".
Orszag is convinced that rising federal health-care costs are the most important cause of long-term deficits.
Or recognizing the harm to low-lying countries that rising oceans will inevitably cause to all of us.
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They also point to a vast body of research pointing to rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels to be the cause.
While cartels are rarely directly linked to crime in the city, the DEA agent said drug trafficking is an underlying cause of territorial battles between street gangs that are blamed for rising homicide rates.
But fundamentals, such as rising planned layoffs and weak retail sales, along with the specter of the sequester, could cause a negative surprise.
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Still, while rising demand for oil should be a cause of concern long-term, economists say the current spike in U.S. gas prices is just that--a spike caused by unusually tight supply.
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