TITLE

Our First Response to Climate Change

AUTHOR(S)

Chandler, William

PUB. DATE

November 2007

SOURCE

World Watch;Nov/Dec2007, Vol. 20 Issue 6, p10

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article focuses on the rapid effects of global warming in climate change and the ways that can be implemented to combat it. It mentions several climatic changes that are being recorded throughout the world. It states that the ice cap in the northern pole is melting and the intensity of hurricanes are increasing. It refers to an assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), that concluded that most of the climatic changes are being caused by man and that the greenhouse effect is increasing due to the gases emitted from energy use. It mentions some measures such as the Kyoto Protocol aiming to reduce harmful emissions. It mentions that serious involvement is required by world's leading nations and by the United Nations to work with developing countries.

ACCESSION #

27137100

Tags: CLIMATIC changes;  GLOBAL warming -- Prevention;  GREENHOUSE effect (Atmosphere) -- Prevention;  INTERGOVERNMENTAL Panel on Climate Change;  CLIMATIC changes -- Risk assessment;  GLOBAL temperature changes;  UNITED Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992). Protocols, etc., 1997 Dec. 11;  CLIMATOLOGY;  UNITED Nations

 

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