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Article: Global warming: an introduction to the state of the science and a survey of some legal responses.
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- Florida Bar Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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In 1979, James Speth, a member of the President's Counsel on Environmental Quality (CEQ), while completing a report on probable changes in global population, natural resources, and the environment through the end of the century, was asked by some prominent scientists to raise the profile of "global climate disruption." He was provided a report predicting "a warming that will probably be conspicuous within the next twenty years" and calling for "enlightened policies to manage fossil fuels and emissions." The report's conclusions were affirmed by the National Academy of Scientists' Climate Research Board that warned "a wait and see policy may mean waiting until it is too ...