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The chief cause is Nigeria's inability to process its crude.

After decades of this, nearly every expert agrees that global warming is a problem and that a chief cause is the oil, gas and coal burned by humans.

A chief cause is sulfur fallout (i.e., contamination by what is commonly known as acid rain); most of the sulfur is discharged into the atmosphere by industrial facilities in nearby countries.

None of this is science fiction; all of it is science fact, though the Koch brothers and their friends do everything they possibly can to deceive the masses that it's not true and that the conspiracy to deceive the public is to be found amongst the 97+% of climate scientists who say that global warming is happening and that its chief cause is human atmospheric carbon emissions.

Last year world platinum supply fell to its lowest in 12 years; the chief cause was disruption to mining in South Africa.

Mr. Melnyk, he added, believes he did not mislead investors because he disclosed the revenue shortfall, even if his description of its chief cause was wrong.

But the chief cause was the change from their natural climate, coming as they did out of shady and hilly countries, abounding in means of shelter from the heat, to lodge in low, and, in the autumn season, very unhealthy ground; added to which was the length and tediousness of the siege, as they had now sate seven months before the Capitol.

The most credible analyses have shown that the chief causes were not demographics or TV watching, but vast curricular changes, especially in the critical early grades.

Although natural factors played a role in most European famines of the Middle Ages, their chief causes were feudal social systems (structured upon lords and vassals) and population growth, which extended many common food shortages into malnutrition, widespread disease, and starvation.

While the process of thrombosis is not completely understood, the chief underlying cause is believed to be a lesion (atherosclerosis) that destroys the normal endothelial surface of the blood vessel.

A combination of extended warmth and humidity until very recently is probably a chief cause, as is the extremely rainy summer and early fall.