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    contributed to the climate change crisis in one way or another. Whether their impact be small or large, it is still a recognized fact that the people within the borders of their nation have impacted the environment in some manner. Responsibility cannot be tossed away and ignored regarding climate change, because of this it is important to allocate responsibility among countries fairly. Due to this reasoning, the fairest and most reasonable way to apportion the costs of climate change is to utilize Peter

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    Kyoto Protocol: Introduction: 1. The problem of Global Warming has been one that has increased dramatically throughout the past 150 years. This is thought to be due to increased industrialisation throughout the world in this time and this is backed up by the fact that approximately 97%(NASA, n.d.) of scientists worldwide believe that it is strongly likely the increasing global climate is due to human activity. International cooperation is required in order to solve the problem of global warming

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    World’s Climate Change Along with high poverty levels, lack of education, and issues with food and water security. Climate change is one of the many, yet most serious trials facing our world today. The world’s climate has changed drastically over the years. To be specific, one example would be the intense warming pattern that began in the middle nineteen-twenties and continued into the millennium and even into today. While, there is new knowledge regarding the topic of climate change and scientific

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    With climate change leading species to go extinct and causing sea levels to rise, what have our major governments done to prevent all this from happening. In 2006 Al Gore stated that "The voluminous evidence now strongly suggest that unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes"(An Inconvenient Truth). What Al Gore has said over 10 years ago has become a gruesome reality with many natural disasters

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    General's position for the 2017 to 2022 term, so the Pittsburgh twenty-six to forty-one percent target displayed a desired spotlight onto him on a global level. Lastly, another facet that contributes to Indonesia's eagerness to get involved on climate change internationally is universal citizenship and global prestige; "the emissions target was a logical conclusion to its engagement in international climate negotiations, following on from its diplomatic success with the 2007 UN climate conference in Bali"

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    In Networks in Contention: The Divisive Politics of Climate Change, Jennifer Hadden (2015) investigates the climate movement and the role of contentious actors during the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in 2009. Hadden (2015) identifies two distinct civil society networks of the climate movement: conventional climate advocacy and climate justice activism. Hadden uses relational theory to understand the decision making processes of the conventional climate advocacy networks and climate justice

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    Lakoff Reframing

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    as Lakoff describes, the language activates frames or ideas. His definition of reframing was also helpful: “Reframing is changing the way the public sees the world. It is change what counts as common sense.” One of important takeaway from Lakoff and “Psychologists are Learning How to Convince Conservatives to Take Climate Change Seriously,” was the need to understand how the other side worldview before attempting to persuade them of anything. The experiment using text that featured either “innocents

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    Carolyn Gregory

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    With today’s broad spectrum of opposing political ideals, climate change is one of the most polarizing and argued points. In an article entitled “Why Some Conservatives Can’t Accept That Climate Change Is Real” by Carolyn Gregoire, we are presented the supposed thought process and biases held by modern conservatives. The author, Carolyn Gregoire, serves as a senior science and health writer at The Huffington Post. Though challenging competency is a common attack used on both sides of the political

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    Pamela Chasek Summary

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    The main claim of Pamela Chaseks’s presentation was that through government and industry climate change can be stopped. Chasek discusses several instances when governments united regarding climate change as well as how these governments have impacted climate change, if at all. For example,a successful negotiation was Lima 2014, the United States and China agreed to reduce emissions; however, at the Copenhagen Climate Conference in 2009 developed countries made an agreement that left developing countries

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    Walter Rosenbaum

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    For decades, scholars have tackled the complicated task of educating the public on American environmental policies and the politics. Walter Rosenbaum, as the author of Environmental Politics and Policy, debates the environmental issues and matters facing this nation. The book provides insight into America’s institutions and processes of environmental policy making, as well as the constant transformations and effects that go along with it. The book is significant in terms of the vast and diverse sources

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