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…with the question, 'if you could have any choice, what would be the ideal way to stop or reverse the greenhouse effect?' Steve Rawlings, the highest ranking officer in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, responded, 'Stop cutting down the trees and stop using fossil…

…to phase out persistent organic pollutants such as DDT and PCBs. The Democrats will seek to a strong international agreement to regulate greenhouse gases to prevent the depletion of the ozone layer. At home, Democrats claim to know that sound economic…

…having the ability to mediate. This was a very tight association between social mediation and political ideology. It was an extreme form of exclusive mediation, as Greenhouse would have categorized it. It consisted of the political ideology being very…

…UN action we oppose, and still act alone when the UN lacks consensus. Yet there are politicians in our country that say the UN threatens our sovereignty and dictates our policy. Developing countries are reluctant to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions…

…threatened by more greenhouse gases. Myth #7: California's three big utilities were forced, against their will, to sell their power plants. As described in the introduction, California's three big utilities lobbied intensely to pass the 1996 deregulation bill…

…of global climate: Corals remove large amounts of carbon from the atmosphere as they grow, actually "fixing" 700 billion kilograms a year. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. Coral Reefs are also very important…

…generation. As Beder explains (1996), ‘individuals might prefer, in times of recession, to continue adding to the greenhouse emissions rather than cutback on energy use but taken to its extreme this could threaten future generations in a severe way’. Another…

…-134a is more expensive and more difficult to work with than CFC's, and while it has no effect on stratospheric ozone it is a greenhouse gas (though somewhat less potent than the CFC's). Some engineers have argued that non-CFC fluids, such as propane…

…in the dam and those who are dependents on them. Studies have also suggested that when the submerged vegetation in large dams decays it emits greenhouse gases that are equal to those released by other sources of electricity (Baird, Stuart. http://www.iclei.org…

…is this fuel source an affordable alternative, it is virtually free from all metals, and sulfur, thus reducing the greenhouse effect. From the pulp, hemp can be used to process ethanol, which is used in high performance engines. In addition to producing gasoline…