Use appropriate perspectives to define any problems associated with `Global Warming`, and evaluate policies which might be used to resolve these problems.

There is overwhelming evidence that global warming is actually occurring and is no longer just an academic concern . The IPCC , Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , is more concerned with the occurrence of global warming than ever before . The importance of the issue was most forcefully brought to the public 's attention with Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita . Their unusual severity , being among the strongest ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico , reminded a number of network newscasters of recent scientific reports predicting an increase in hurricane severity (Jordan . The Stern Review : the

Economics of Climate Change released in 2007 insists that there is still time to make an impact and change the effects of global warming . Failure to do so would result in climate change (that ) will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water , food production , health , and the environment . Hundreds of millions of people could suffer hunger water shortages and costal floodings as the world warms ( The Stern Review . Europe and the United States do not always agree on policies and procedures that would move in the direction towards slowing the process of global warming . It is comforting to find that although Europe and the United States do not always agree on policies they are both taking different approaches to help slow the process of global warming

In recent news a European Commission proposal to slash greenhouse-gas emissions by the end of the next decade ' and has put a plan into action to ensure this occurs "Climate Trumps Terror in " A01

The European Union is currently committed to cutting a basket of six greenhouse gases by 8 percent by 2010 , compared with 1990 figures . The commission says its new goal can be reached if member states improve energy efficiency , accept competition between national energy suppliers agree to produce 20 percent of their energy from renewable sources such as wind and solar power by 2020 and ensure that 10 percent of gasoline consumed is made from biofuels by the same date "Climate Trumps Terror in " A01

Fortunately this is a realistic plan , with set goals , and perceived improvements analyzed . European nations are taking the threat of global warming seriously . Twenty seven of the countries in the European Union have joined forces and in 1997 signed the KYOTO treaty to prevent global warming . It also hopeful that

the 27-member-nation European Union which as a block is one of the largest global warming polluters is likely to meet its collective goal (to reduce greenhouse gas emissions . This is due in large part to Eastern European states having shut down or modernized heavy polluting Soviet-era industries during the 1990s . Also helping the EU effort is the United Kingdom , which is on track to meet its goals , thanks mostly to a switch from coal-fired power plants to cleaner burning natural gas ( Earth Talk : Which Countries

The European Union has set and accepted strict standards to reduce the threat of global warming

In the United States the burning...