Original sentence: Additional factors include:.Existence of a scientific consensus on the above issues.Future climate predictions and scenarios, including their likelihood, magnitude, global, and regional effects.Individuals, corporations, and political organizations are involved, so the debate is vigorous in the popular media and on a policy level.Political actions and international agreements.The controversy focuses on the warming after World War II, and the main points are:.The objectivity of surveys, studies, letters, and publications.The responsibility of human activity, such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation
Edited sentence: Another part of the debate relates to political or policy decisions and their rationales.For example, the Kyoto Protocol and its provisions relating to developing nations are matters of some debate.However, the controversy focuses on the specific causes of the recent warming, and concentrates on the warming after World War II; the likelihood and magnitude of future warming; and whether additional warming would be harmful or beneficial.Some of the main areas of controversy include:.The consequences of climate change, and whether they are generally negative.The debate is more vigorous in the popular media and on a policy level; questions include whether there is a scientific consensus on the extent and rate of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), and in particular whether there is sufficient evidence to justify immediate and far-reaching actions to ameliorate its effects.The effect of predicted depletion of fossil fuels, both individually as e.The effectiveness of policies to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.The existence of a rise in average temperatures since the mid-19th century is almost universally accepted.The regional effects of climate change.The size of future changes in climate.Whether human/industrial activity is  responsible for the change and if so, to what extent.Whether the climate is changing beyond natural variations in the historical temperature record.Whether the recorded temperature increase is a manifestation of the UHI effect.oil runs out and users turn to the higher polluting coal and overall as to whether there are sufficient available reserves to cause the more extreme climate change scenarios