Global warming may open Northwest Passage

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It is almost daily that television news mention environmental and natural disasters in each area of the world. Thus, the recent environmental events in the last years were cyclones like Katrina, tsunamis, floods, dryness… Scientifics don't give a verdict on these events but public opinion attributes them to global change and particularly to global warming. Global warming refers to the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. In which measure the controversies and the actual debates about global warming make the ecological message and the environmental politics difficult? The Kyoto protocol is the most prominent international agreement on climate change, and is also highly controversial.

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[...] In which measure the controversies and the actual debates about global warming make the ecological message and the environmental politics difficult? 1. Global warming appears now as a fact recognized but much debated A. The general consensus about the characteristics and the effects of global warming The Kyoto protocol is the most prominent international agreement on climate change, and is also highly controversial. Some argue that it goes too far or not nearly far enough in restricting emissions of greenhouse gases. [...]

[...] The deployment of renewable energy requires appropriate economic, market and regulatory instruments. The diffusion and deployment of newly developed renewable energy technologies into markets are particularly significant. A key strategy for market acceleration is removing trade and investment barriers between countries with significant renewable resources. Global strategies for accelerating the market penetration and diffusion of renewable energies need to engage both developed and developing countries. Governments can employ a number of strategies to improve the competitiveness of renewable energy. B. [...]

[...] As a consequence of that, environmental questions are still the fact of the political struggles and the priority of one party: the ecological party. The recent French measure of “Grenelle de l'environnement” can be a good attempt to establish a consensus about environmental questions. David G. [...]

[...] Despite its success, some political leaders are less keen on embracing the film as a matter-of-fact necessity. B. The critics and the limits of the Al Gore's thesis Thus, the government had decided to show the movie of Al Gore to all students of the school system. However, a parent has decided to challenge that decision on the ground that it infringed the legal obligation of teaching not to participate in attempts to indoctrination. To be able to distribute this film, the court decided that the government must change the distribution because eleven inaccuracies in particular must be brought to the attention of children. [...]

[...] In fact, the evidence shows that the expected increase in the sea level is 40 cm over the next hundred years and that there is no threat of a massive population displacement. - The film suggests that the ice caps of Greenland could melt and cause an alarming rise in the sea level. The evidence shows that Greenland will not melt before the millennia. The court give a ruling in the clearest possible way that many key assertions Al Gore are only peremptory assertions unfounded scientifically What issues? A. [...]