Hi Everybody,
Like I’ve mentioned in the class my research question will be associated with “Why the united states does not sign the Kyoto agreement ?” at the beginning I looked for in depth explanation of this agreement and how it came about on the internet. I started here because Im hoping to get inspired from reading articles and coming up with more specific questions I can later answer in the paper. I found an academic research article on how rate of decline of greenhouse emissions must relate to rate of GDP growth. I will most likely involve this reference in my paper sine I wanted to analyze the political standpoint on this issue and the economy is very related to that. I have yet to read the entire paper but from skimming through it I can see very valuable facts for my question.
Kolstad, Charles D. “The simple analytics of greenhouse gas emission intensity reduction targets.” Energy Policy. 33.17 (2005): 2231-2236. Web. 8 Sep. 2012. <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421504001466>.
Im making a note of the reference here. I also tried to look for politicians’ statements about the issue and found Bush’es statement explaining why it would be bad for the US economy to agree to such terms. This is the link to the web article. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8422343/ns/politics/t/bush-kyoto-treaty-would-have-hurt-economy/#.UE5bUWhAbR0
At the moment researching this topic seems like investigating a historical event. I look forward to finding new clues and tying them together .
Salome
I like your approach, Salome!