actively preventing action on climate change and renewable energy solutions by undermining the science and running campaigns aimed to confuse the public, appended as Annex “E.” 2. Climate Change Impacts Climate Change is “a change in climate that can be identified by changes in the mean and/or variability of its properties and that persists for an extended period typically decades or longer, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity.”42 Figure 1 depicts both the natural greenhouse effect and human enhanced greenhouse effect. It is a widely accepted fact that “human influence on the climate system is clear, and recent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are the highest in history.”43 Carbon dioxide is acting on the climate like a “performance enhancing drug.”44 According to a leading source of climate news, “[a]ll that extra energy in the atmosphere increases the probability and intensity of extreme weather events, making droughts, storms and wildfires…far more likely and far more destructive.”45 The impacts of climate change can also be gradual and/or have a slow-onset. The atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide have increased to levels unprecedented in at least the last 800,000 years. Carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 42 An Act Establishing the People’s Survival Fund to Provide Long-term Finance Streams to Enable the Government to Effectively Address the Problem of Climate Change, Amending for the Purpose Republic Act No. 9729, Otherwise Known as “Climate Change Act” and for Other Purposes, Republic Act No. 10174, § 3, ¶ d (2011). 43 IPCC, 2014: Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, R.K. Pachauri and L.A. Meyer (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland, 151 pp., Summary for Policymakers at 2. Available at https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/AR5_SYR_FINAL_SPM.pdf (last accessed on June 15, 2015). 44 Polar Bears International, Climate Change, http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/about-polarbears/climate-change (last accessed on September 15, 2015). 45 Stephen Lacey, Climate Progress, Media Connecting The Dots On U.S. Storms, Heat And Wildfires: ‘This Is What Global Warming Looks Like’, July 3, 2012, http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/07/03/510481/media-connecting-the-dots-on-us-storms-heat-andwildfires-this-is-what-global-warming-looks-like/ (last accessed on Sept. 15, 2015). ! ! ! ! ! 24 !