Are there global warming laws and what do they do?
In many countries, states and cities, and even at the international level in treaties, there are many laws that deal with global warming. In fact, the problem of not controlling global warming seems to more and more be a problem of inside the beltway, because the Administration and the Congress have not dealt with the problem yet. However, in California, there's a comprehensive limit on the emissions of the greenhouse gases; this means that the amount of carbon dioxide coming out of the tailpipes of automobiles or the smokestacks of power plants and factories is going to be strictly limited in the future. In several states in the northeast; New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Vermont and a couple of others, emissions from power plants are being strictly limited and there are also plans to limit the emissions from motor vehicles as well. At the international level, there's a treaty called the "Kyoto Protocol", which the U.S. is not a party to, but by which the EU, Japan, Canada and almost every other industrialised country has agreed to abide, which will gradually slow the emissions of the greenhouse gases in those places. All that's missing from really getting on top of this problem is political leadership out of Washington. If Washington would step forward, I think we'd bring all countries into the fold and we would have a global solution to global warming.
