Climate Change and American Foreign Policy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780312233419
Subjects: Climate Changes; U.S. Foreign Relations; Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Environmental Science; General; Political Science / General; Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology; International Relations - General; Climatic changes; Foreign relations; Government policy; United States
First sentence: Climate change, sometimes labeled global warming or the enhanced "greenhouse effect," is the extraordinary warming of the Earth from increased concentrations of "greenhouse gases" (GHGs) and the climatic consequences of that warming.