ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the current political attitude both in the United States and internationally on the climate change issue. In order to get climate change effectively under control, it will take the efforts of every country worldwide. The chapter focuses first on the United States because it presents one of the most difficult and frustrating pathways leading to the identification, acceptance, and solution of the climate change problem of any country on the planet, and the reason is not singular, or direct. It ranges from economic to political to institutional to lifestyle preferences to existing infrastructure to personal reasons, and the gambit in between. The long-debated hiatus in "global warming" as it is been called by climate denialists for years, who have tried to claim it proved scientists' projections on climate change are inaccurate and exaggerated is now being countered by new evidence discovered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
