global warming, is there any kind of substitutes ?

According to National Academy of Sciences, the average global temperature has raised 1° Fahrenheit in the last century The increasing temperature of the earth’s surface is commonly known as global warming. It causes many negative impacts, which include “more-violent storms, changes in the course of the Gulf Stream”, melting of the polar ice sheets, and rising of the sea level. Since the industrial movement, the world’s economic developed rapidly. The development of economy helps many countries create more benefits. However, the environmental problems, representing by the global warming, which are due to the industrial production became severe and the cost of solving them was significantly high during the last decade.
Since the global warming problems is mainly caused by the use of fossil fuel in the industrial producing, is there kinks of alternative energy sources could be used? such as the solar energy, the nuclear power, or wind projects?
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