THE GLOBAL WARMING CONUNDRUM.

Global warming & politics; Global warming research; Effect of human beings on climate change; Climate change research; Risk assessment of climate change; Right & left (Political science); Polarization (Social sciences)

An essay is presented reviewing the political-philosophical debate over global warming or climate change in the United States as of 2012. Introductory comments are given highlighting the polarization which has occurred in U.S. society over the issue, primarily along liberal-conservative lines. The author then identifies and differentiates several of the issues on which there is consensus and which are still in contention.