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Hi, I need help with essay on Global Warming. Paper must be at least 31250 words. Please, no plagiarized work!Download file to see previous pages... While it is increasingly accepted by a growing numb

Hi, I need help with essay on Global Warming. Paper must be at least 31250 words. Please, no plagiarized work!

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While it is increasingly accepted by a growing number of policy makers that action needs to be taken immediately to address climate change, it is politically difficult to do so when the impacts, in most parts of the world, are still insignificant. This is a classic 'Catch 22'. When it is possible to take decisive action to prevent catastrophe, the lack of major impacts justifies delays. but when the impacts are all too clear and the need for drastic action is recognised it may be too late.

Effective and well-founded climate policies require a careful and informed analysis of the problem, and the possible options available for addressing it. This book aims, in part, to make such a contribution. Drawing from theories and evidence from the natural and social sciences A Warming World introduces and discusses some of the various claims and counterclaims that are made about climate change, the economic costs of action, the barriers to international cooperation, the security implications of climate change, and some of the technical, political and ethical issues involved in seeking low carbon energy alternatives to coal and oil.

The intention is not only to explore climate policy making, but also to illuminate some ideas, debates and challenges that arise in environmental policy making more broadly. Environmental policy is a complex and challenging field for researchers, students and, of course, for policy makers themselves. In order to make this complexity more easily manageable we have structured this book - and the course - around a

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The book questions and themes are introduced more fully in the Course Guide. You should read the introduction to the Course Guide before you start reading Chapter 1 of this book

conceptual framework comprising four course questions and six course themes.

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