Foreword
The issue of global climatechange has become one of the central environmental controversies of our time.Scientific evidence continues to mount that the Earth is getting warmer, butactivists, politicians, and industry groups disagree on the seriousness of theproblem, whether it is caused by human activities, and whether proposedresponses will be effective. Although manynations have taken steps to regulate the emission of greenhouse gases, such ascarbon dioxide (CO2), suspected to beresponsible for global warming, the United States has yet to ratify the keyinternational agreement on the issue, the Kyoto Protocol to the UN FrameworkConvention on Climate Change, or to take other…
