Global Warming - Contact a Lawyer

Global warming is one of our toughest environmental challenges, threatening the health of people, wildlife and economies around the world. We have the know-how to start fixing the problem, but we have to start soon. Decisions we make today will affect the planet for years to come.

The problem is carbon dioxide co2 and other heat-trapping pollution -- mainly from cars, power plants and other industrial sources that burn gasoline, coal and other fossil fuels -- collecting like a blanket in the atmosphere. As a result, the planet is getting warmer. In fact, 2002 was the second warmest year on record, according to NASA (right behind 1998, and just ahead of 2001).

Although earth temperatures fluctuate naturally, warming over the past 50 years is the fastest in history. And experts think the trend is accelerating. Scientists say that unless global warming emissions are reduced, average U.S. temperatures could be 3 to 9 degrees higher by the end of the century.

It's not just about shorts and sandals. Global warming means more air pollution and problems with water supplies as precipitation patterns change, as well as huge threats to ecosystems from the Everglades to the glaciers. There will be hotter, longer heat waves and more intense storm systems. Forests, farms and cities will face troublesome new pests and more mosquito-borne diseases. Scientists say many of these symptoms are already appearing.

The good news is that the solutions to this problem are clear. The technologies to build cleaner cars and to modernize power plants are readily at hand. We can lean more heavily on renewable energy sources such as wind, sun and hydrogen fuel cells. And we know how to make more efficient appliances and to conserve energy at home, in the office and on the road.

The United States has long been the world's leading developer of new technologies. But we are also the leading global warming polluter: with only 4 percent of the world's population, we produce 25 percent of the carbon dioxide co2 pollution. We have a responsibility, as individuals and as a nation, to lead the world toward slashing emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases. And we have the solutions to this problem -- but we have to begin using them now. 

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