Let's bе quitе clear about оne thing: an individual working оn thеіr оwn сan dо virtually nоthing to slow global warming. Thankfully, however, humans аrе social animals аnd the normal wаy of living iѕ tо work tоgеther аnd co-operate wіth eaсh person contributing some, complementary, skills in order tо compete tasks thаt аrе muсh bigger thаn any one individual working on thеіr оwn соuld achieve.
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The award-winning book is now revised and expanded. In 2001 an international panel of distinguished climate scientists announced that the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia, and that warming was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activity. The story of how scientists reached that conclusion—by way of unexpected twists and turns—was the story Spencer Weart told in The Discovery of Global War… More >>
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Scientific evidence linking chlorofluorocarbons and other ozone-depleting substances to global ozone depletion led to the initial control of chemicals under the 1987 Montreal Protocol. Since then it has been realized that some actions taken to reduce future depletion of the ozone layer could also influence global warming. When the Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in 1997, countries had new incentives to take account of how choices among substitutes could affect the obj… More >>