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A poll due for release on Wednesday April 18, 2012 shows that a large majority of Americans believe that this year's unusually warm winter, last year's blistering summer and some other weather disasters were probably made worse by global warming . In spite of this, in 1988, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in Geneva to notice the changes in climate by doing research and protection around the world . Between different standpoints among scientists and organizations as to whether the impact of global warming will be good or not in the future, governmental and economic policies regarding the benefits of climate change have changed back and forth from agreement to disagreement. These changes have occurred independently of the outbreaks of infectious diseases which argue that were related to the warming period of the earth. However, these changes are in reality the consequences of historical, cultural, political, social and economic events. These events have initiated the roots of this contemporary issue to become the voice of media and international organizations nowadays.

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