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Greenblatt, Alan. "Confronting Warming: Can states and localities prevent climate change?" CQ Researcher 9 Jan. 2009. Growing concern about climate change has led states and cities to adopt new policies to try to conserve energy and reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. California recently adopted new rules that aim to reduce such gases by 30 percent by 2020, while a cap on carbon emissions in the Northeast took effect Jan. 1. But critics say the efforts are more symbolic than substantive, pushing real sacrifices far off into the future. Many business groups, meanwhile, complain that the new rules will increase the cost of energy and hurt the economy — despite current promises that a "Green New Deal" can create jobs. The Obama administration promises to be far more aggressive in addressing global warming than the skeptical Bush White House. Even though the issue is coming to the fore in Washington, states and cities that have filled the policy vacuum in recent years pledge to stay vigilant in addressing the issue. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Billitteri, Thomas J. "Reducing Your Carbon Footprint: Can individual actions reduce global warming?." CQ Researcher 5 Dec. 2008.

Weeks, Jennifer. "Carbon Trading: Will it reduce global warming?." CQ Global Researcher November 2008. Carbon emissions trading — the buying and selling of permits to emit greenhouse gases caused by burning fossil fuels — is becoming a top strategy for reducing pollution that causes global climate change.

Woodard, Colin. "Curbing Climate Change: Is the world doing enough?." CQ Global Researcher. February 2007.

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Climate Change: Is tougher action needed to slow rising temperatures? ." CQ Researcher. 27 Jan. 2006 : 73-96.

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Roberts, J. Timmons and Bradley C. Parks. Climate of Injustice : Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy. MIT Press, 2006.

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Reference

Selin, Henrik. "Global Warming." Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2008.

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Websites

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

United States. Dept. of Commerce. Natl. Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. National Climatic Data Center.

RealClimate - "commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists."

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change