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Presidential Leadership and the Challenge of Global Climate Change

This article examines the kind of leadership our new president may reasonably be expected to provide with respect to the looming problem of global climate disruption. After an overview of recent scientific findings respecting the causes and the present and potential impacts of greenhouse gas emissions, the piece identifies a set of politically unique aspects of climate change that present unique challenges to a president's ability to lead. Following a survey of the writings of a selected set of presidential scholars who have examined the ways in which American presidents can and do set and influence national policy, the article suggests that our 44th president should attract a top team of advisers, fashion a practical, workable program to address global warming, take the diplomatic initiative on the issue, coordinate his efforts with those of influential members of Congress, employ effective public persuasion, and carefully craft unilateral actions that will dramatize the climate change problem and take at least modest steps to eliminate it. The article further concludes that although these steps may be effective at moving policy forward, there remain practical constraints on presidential power that limit the extent to which any president can tackle climate change issues.