ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. Over the last forty years or so the US government has produced a range of policies to address climate change. Laws, regulatory action, and court rulings have led to advances in climate science, action to reduce levels of greenhouse gas emissions, and efforts to prepare for the potential consequences of climate change. Advocates of action to address climate change have made a number of efforts over the last four decades to counter the arguments of opponents and even frame the issue in alternative ways. Legislative stalemate at the federal level has meant that old laws have sometimes been pressed into new uses to address climate change. Kingdon's conceptual framework suggests that the prognosis for a radical change in the US government's climate change policy is not good. The deep partisan divisions that have come to characterize congressional climate change politics show little sign of diminishing.
