by Alvinbeo

Created on: August 31, 2009   Last Updated: September 03, 2009

Global Warming is a phenomena of a change in climate and average temperature of the planet, which is caused by human activities in the world, such as industrialization and pollution from automobiles that have seen a massive increase in numbers in the world's major cities. In hindsight, perhaps Global Warming does not seem to be a huge phenomena to be too concerned about, even after looking at the statistics of the world's average temperature.

After all, according to the data available, it is only an increase of a mere 3-4 degree Celsius. In average temperature in centuries, seems that nothing is to be worried about there. However, it received international attention as the little increment in the world's average temperature is found out by scientists to be the precursor of various detrimental global phenomenons, such as melting of ice caps which in turn results in flooding of coastal cities (eg. New Orleans) as well as the extinction of a number of species of animals such as polar bears, an increasing occurrences of typhoons and hurricanes (eg. Hurricane Katrina, El Nino, among others) as well as other natural disasters.

The world saw an increase in efforts to combat Global Warming due to the pessimistic outlook by the scientists as well as the occurrences of the adverse effects mentioned. Despite that, I could see and I would say, that global warming is no longer an international issue in so far as the 21st century.

Global Warming keeps on declining in the pecking order of the list of priorities of countries, especially huge countries such as the USA. This is especially true ever since the Bush Administration started back in 2000, when president Bush at that time, made a complete u-turn regarding this issue after Bill Clinton had tried to put up measures to help prevent Global Warming.

In the following paragraph, we would delve into the various reasons why countries in the world no longer consider this issue as top priority and whether it is still a global issue or not at present.

The very first reason why many countries, especially the USA abandoned their strive to solve the Global Warming issue is because of the War on Terrorism. The issue of terrorism has leapfrogged Global Warming as the top priority issue to be addressed, due to the ever increasing audacity and volume of terrorist attacks around the world since the turn of the century.

The biggest and most audacious attack of the century was of course the infamous 9/11 incident, in which the World Trade

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