Taking Action on Global Warming

From: Human and Ecological Risk Assessment | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: Clark, Milton | Copyright information

The global warming debate is now over-at least the science part of it. The planet is warming because of us and the greenhouse gases we produce. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the United Nations have concluded that a strong relationship exists between human activity and observed temperature increases (United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2001; NAS 2001; NAS 2006). In 2005, national science academies of the G-8 countries as well as China, India, and Brazil issued...

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