Explain how mitigation and adaptation relate to policy responses to climate change.
What will be an ideal response?
Two areas of policy response to climate change are possible, and most experts argue both are necessary. Mitigation involves reducing the cause of the problem: GHG production. This has been the central focus of efforts at creating international climate change accords over the past 20 years. Adaptation involves policies to adapt to the effects of climate change, such as building seawalls to keep rising sea levels from destroying property, farmers switching crops as local climates change, and island nations in the Pacific proposing to move en masse to other countries because their countries are projected to be completely underwater by the end of the century.
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A) Ted Cruz B) Jill Stein C) Hillary Clinton D) Donald Trump E) Bernie Sanders
A person in which of the following education categories is LEAST likely to vote?
A. a person with an associate's degree B. a person with a bachelor's degree C. a person with an advanced degree D. a person with a high school diploma E. a person with an eighth-grade education
When bureaucrats compete to take duties and responsibilities away from one another’s departments or keep their opponent from doing so, they are participating in ______.
a. turf wars b. executive privilege c. hierarchal dissonance d. interpersonal relations
Even though a correlational study can negate a theory, it CANNOT
A) Prove a theory correct. B) Prove a theory incorrect. C) Help in predicting future events. D) Serve to stimulate future research on a new phenomenon.