Panelists debate the legal and practical aspects of greenhouse gas regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency at the March First Wednesday Seminar.
Bio
David Doniger
David Doniger is Policy Director of the Climate Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Art Fraas
Art Fraas is Visiting Scholar at Resources for the Future and former Chief of the Natural Resources, Energy, and Agriculture Branch at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and Office of Management and Budget.
Jeff Holmstead
Jeff Holmstead is Partner at Bracewell and Giuliani; and former Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, U.S. EPA.
Nathan Richardson
Nathan Richardson is Visiting Scholar at Resources For the Future.
Phil Sharp
Phil Sharp is President of Resources for the Future.
Increase in the global average surface temperature resulting from enhancement of the greenhouse effect, primarily by air pollution. In 2007 the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change forecasted that by 2100 global average surface temperatures would increase 3.2–7.2 °F (1.8–4.0 °C), depending on a range of scenarios for greenhouse gas emissions, and stated that it was now 90 percent certain that most of the warming observed over the previous half century could be attributed to greenhouse gas emissions produced by human activities (i.e., industrial processes and transportation). Many scientists predict that such an increase in temperature would cause polar ice caps and mountain glaciers to melt rapidly, significantly raising the levels of coastal waters, and would produce new patterns and extremes of drought and rainfall, seriously disrupting food production in certain regions. Other scientists maintain that such predictions are overstated. The 1992 Earth Summit and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change attempted to address the issue of global warming, but in both cases the efforts were hindered by conflicting national economic agendas and disputes between developed and developing nations over the cost and consequences of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.
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