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Environmental Law 101:Global Climate Change, Part II
Several years ago, I prepared a presentation about global warming entitled “Framing the Debate: A Layperson’s Summary of the Scientific Case For and Against Global Climate Change.” I didn’t know much about the subject at that time and I didn’t feel like I was getting useful information from all the people yelling at each other on television. Such is the nature of political debates—they shed a lot of heat, but little light. I wanted to...
Environmental Law 101: Global Climate Change, Part I
No environmental issue has sparked more controversy in the last decade than the issue of Climate Change or Global Warming. The heat of the debate is not matched by knowledge about the subject. As a result, I am going to write about the topic—in several pieces in order to emphasize that the topic has a number of moving parts that all deserve thoughtful discussion. I find it useful to start the conversation with the following...
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...