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Environmental Law 101: Winston Churchill and Forrest Gump Contribute to the Climate Change Debate
Regardless of what one thinks about climate change/warming, the impacts of air pollution itself are staggering. The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that 7 million people died in 2012 from air pollution with 40% of those being in China. That’s a huge problem and it is the result of inadequate environmental control of particulates as well as other air pollutants in many parts of the world. As China has industrialized, it became the top...
Environmental Law 101: Global Climate Change, Part IV
Part I of this series of posts on Global Climate Change discussed Greenhouse Gases (what they are, where they come from and why they are important to life on Earth). Part II discussed the positions of various experts on whether Earth is going through a period of global warming (it is) without getting into a debate about how much the industrial revolution is likely to have contributed to the current warming trend and whether changing...
Environmental Law 101: Global Climate Change, Part III
The Universe is complex—so complex that we still imperfectly understand it. What we do know is that Earth, the “Water Planet,” is unique and special. Scientists have an idea of what has happened billions of years ago. But what tools do they use to predict what is going to happen in the future. The answer is computer models. How accurate are predictions on the impact of CO₂ on the Earth’s climate? The story has to...