The last two decades have witnessed an ever growing partisan divide in American politics over global warming, Significant elements in the Republican Party became openly hostile to the scientific evidence and, following the election of George W. Bush, legislative action at the federal level effectively ground to a halt inadvertently freeing up the state and local level to develop climate change policies with cities such as Chicago, San Francisco and New York implementing a number of initiatives that brought real and substantive developments. The election of Barack Obama in 2008 seemed to...
The last two decades have witnessed an ever growing partisan divide in American politics over global warming, Significant elements in the Republican P...
