2nd Post

a) How can policies of your government either contribute to help or reduce the problem of global warming?

A policy by definition is a deliberate plan of action to guide decisions and achieve rational outcome. Global warming on the other hand is the increasing average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century.
Global warming is a big concern to many as the increasing global temperature causes sea levels to rise and will change the amount and pattern of precipitation that will likely destroy subtropical desert regions. Other undesirable negative effects include Arctic shrinkage and resulting Arctic methane release, increases in the intensity of extreme weather events, changes in agricultural yields, modifications of trade routes, glacier retreat, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors.
Having discussed the above negative effects of global warming, there has been an increased awareness from the government to try to do something to help reduce the effects of global warming that attribute from our everyday activities. So in order to bring in fast and effective corrective actions would be to have the government introduce policies like restricting the amount of toxic gaseous or solid waste disposed into the environment as these toxic waste contaminate the waters and air and thus causing the habitats to be infected and die causing extinction or by imposing penalties when electricity or energy consumption exceed a certain amount as it will mean burning more fossil fuel to generate the demanded energy, as burning generate a lot of carbon dioxide that is released into the air and increases the global temperature.
With the government implementing policies, it will show the seriousness of global warming and it will alert everyone else how much damage will global warming thus affecting our live style, due to increasing prices of livestock to provide food for the humankind, increasing number of people suffering from lung problems due to breathing in of unclean air, etc. These government policies will definitely contribute in reducing the problem of global warming.

b) What are the existing or possible roles of environmental and special interest groups in contributing to or solving global warming?

Many special environmental and interest groups have produced many information including educational television programs to educate everyone on the raising temperatures of the earth and the changes in the natural habitats and structures of the wild. There are many campaigns to create awareness to save the world, animals and the environment like the recycling efforts to reduce the amount of waste thrown out.
The possible roles of the groups are to provide more services to help reduce energy consumption at homes and industrial, invent efficient machines to reduce energy consumption and not forgetting to constantly update everyone on how their efforts have helped reduce global warming through regular updates on the situation of the environment that we all are living in, as this will motivate and urge everyone’s commitment and participation.