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An environmental scientist argues that because the implementation of carbon taxes in several European nations was followed by a 10 percent reduction in industrial emissions, carbon taxes are the primary cause of emission reductions globally.
Which one of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the scientist's argument?
- Throughout the very period in which the taxes took effect, those same nations were also pouring far greater sums into renewable-energy development.
- The bulk of the world's carbon output originates in countries that have so far declined to adopt any carbon tax.
- A number of firms in the taxed nations complained that the levy sharply raised the cost of running their operations.
- The 10 percent decline fell short of the figure environmental advocates had initially forecast.
- Carbon taxes have, without exception, eliminated industrial emissions wherever they have been enacted.
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