American heat : ethical problems with the United States' response to global warming / Donald A. Brown.

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2002], ©2002.

xxi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

1. Absence of ethical concern -- 2. History of U.S. participation in global warming negotiations -- 3. Environmental ethics and global warming policy -- 4. Global warming, ethics, and foreign policy -- 5. What is at stake : global warming's threat to human health and the environment -- 6. Uncertainty in the science of climate change -- 7. Ethical duty to reduce emissions in the face of scientific uncertainty about global warming consequences -- 8. U.S. obligations to act even if the developing world does not -- 9. Ethical issues entailed by the use of cost-benefit analysis-based arguments made in opposition to U.S. greenhouse gas reduction programs -- 10. Ethical problems with the U.S. insistence on its view of the Kyoto flexibility mechanisms -- 11. An equitable allocation of greenhouse gas emissions among nations -- 12. Ethical dimensions of a greenhouse gas atmospheric stabilization target -- 13. Conclusion : some additional issues.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-256) and index.