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...next century. To do that, IPCC scientists fed a wide range of scenarios involving varying estimates of population and economic growth, changes in technology and other factors into computers. That process gave them about 35 estimates, ranging from 6 billion to 35 billion tons, of how much excess carbon dioxide will enter the atmosphere...
...short run, there's not much chance of halting global warming, not even if every nation in the world ratifies the Kyoto Protocol tomorrow. The treaty doesn't require reductions in carbon dioxide emissions until 2008. By that time, a great deal of damage will already have been done. But we can slow things down. If action today can keep the climate from eventually reaching an unstable tipping point or can finally begin to reverse the warming trend a century from now, the effort would hardly be futile. Humanity embarked unknowingly on the dangerous experiment of tinkering with the climate...
...grounding in the don't-tread-on-me ideology of Western Republicans would reject a complicated agreement like the one forged in Kyoto, Japan in 1997. A few weeks ago, Bush clearly indicated his opposition to the central tenet of that agreement -curbing global warming by cutting emissions of carbon dioxide -in a letter to several Republican Senators. In it, he abandoned a campaign pledge to regulate CO2 emissions from American power plants, citing among other factors the "incomplete state of scientific knowledge of the causes of, and solutions to, global climate change...
...Environmentalists aren't expecting any alternative proposals from the Bush Administration to come close to the limits U.S. negotiators accepted at Kyoto: a 7% reduction in U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from 1990 levels. The most concrete administrative initiative under way now is an energy task force headed by Vice President Dick Cheney -another Western Republican. Later this month it is expected to recommend more oil exploration, research into cleaner burning of coal and new construction of nuclear power plants...
...Decorum about what? The environment, above all. Bush is repeating the Clinton administration's early errors of symbolism and priority. As Clinton stupidly allowed gays in the military to become an opening issue of his administration, so Bush has given early prominence to carbon dioxide emissions, arsenic in the water, rejection of the Kyoto treaty, and oil drilling in Arctic Alaska. Dumb...