Regarding the issue of global warming, until the hurricane season of 2005, the federal government's official stance was that the information available from the scientific community was neither conclusive nor persuasive. this governmental position was probably due to

This position probably was assumed because the private sector refused to change its practices and strategies. Once their adaptation to the environmental safe options and systems would mean investment and expenditure to either update or alter a lot of situations, they didn't accept global warming.

alliances in ww1 were different from ww2 because the entente in ww1 made up of serbia,russia,france,britan,japan and italy later america  and all allied in a sort of balance of power and too keep germany,austria-hungary,and the ottomans down. russia allied the serbians in order to exert its influence in the balkans while france allied the russians because france was still in dismay and insulted after the defeat to the germans during the unification of germany and britian allied the belgians after the germans invasion of belgium.in ww2 the alliances were in a preemptive attempt to deter any further wars into happening while germany and italy allied since they were insulted and humiliated after the previous war while also sharing a similar ideology of facsim along with japan which all 3 had a want for world domination and agreed to assist one another in the endevours 

explanation:

the three roles stated in the dialogue develop the siblings' personalities.

lloyd's personality looks like a trademarketer

dana's personality is afraid from lloyd's behavior and the oldest sister is a decided person who tries to solve any conflict