Global Warming

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses global warming and international relations. The paper discusses what the Bush administration has done and is currently doing concerning global warming. It discusses the Kyoto Protocol and some of the environmental issues that are particularly important today. The paper then discusses the issue of global warming itself, how it occurs and what kinds of changes it is already causing to the environment.

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"Evidence shows that global warming is increasing more and more quickly, and the most rapid acceleration has been seen to be occurring since 1976 (Healy and Tapick, 2004, 120). The 1990s was the hottest decade since records were started in 1860, and also appeared to be the hottest decade within the last thousand years. It appears that the world is simply heating up, and 1998 holds the record for the hottest year, with 2002 and 2003 tied for a close second (Healy and Tapick, 2004, 96). In many areas of the country this last summer was the hottest summer on record - further evidence that the temperatures are rising more and more. Since there are so many GHGs out there and no one seems to be doing anything about them, this heat wave trend can be expected to continue, which will harm not just the United States but the entire planet. Since the United States has refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol and reduce GHG emissions, this is also going to seriously strain the international relations that the United States has with other countries."

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