POLSCI 1G06 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Emissions Trading, 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Clean Development Mechanism
12 Aug 2016
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Lecture: the politics of the environment - dr. alway. According to many commentators, the earth is currently experiencing multiple environmental crises: greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, species depletion. Focus a lot on climatological and scientific process. The approach in political science in not bio-physical. According to many commentators, the earth is experiencing multiple environmental crises: Temperatures records fluctuate year by year, however if we look at temperature records for the past 150 years. What we notice is that there has been an increase. 1950 average temperature has only gone up degree centigrade. , but it seems to be accelerating. Projections that when we reach 2100, temperature will have reach 3. 6-4. 7 increase. Might not seem like a bad thing, but there are a lot of systemic effects that little increase could have. Analogy: environment as being analogous to human body. You could fall sick, get a fever or fall ill. ramifications could be significant or quite severe.
