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Case Study: The issue: All of you have examined evidence for global climate change and have seen scientific data strongly suggesting that humans are involved in the observed warming of the past century, primarily through the ever-increasing use of fossil fuels. There is growing concern about this issue and a strong global push for action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The most recent international effort was the United Nations Climate Convention at Copenhagen in late 2009. Although the need to prevent dangerous warming was recognized at that meeting, the U.S. and other nations failed to reach any legally-binding agreements. However, the U.S. did pledge to reduce emissions by 17% of 2005 levels by the year 2020, pending Congressional approval. There is a consensus among climate experts that this level of reduction is not aggressive enough to prevent the worst impacts of warming. For this reason, the United States Panel on Climate Change has been asked to consider striving for a more ambitious emissions reduction goal.

Questions:

1. Have a position statement that clearly explains the following:
2. Briefly, how you intend to vote on the proposed legislation (accept, amend, or reject).
3. Why you intend to vote this way. Give at least three clearly and thoroughly explained reasons with at least three forms of published data (including a written citation of the source) to back up your position.