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...pipelines over the next 20 years if you're going to have that kind of reliance on natural gas. Gas is attractive, partly because it's a relatively clean-burning fuel. So there are environmental reasons for going with gas. But both gas and coal also do emit carbon dioxide when you burn them. That in turn gets us over to looking at this whole question of whether or not we ought to go back and reconsider nuclear plants and new nuclear technologies as a way of addressing some of our future demand for electric power while at the same...
...price of drilling, in terms of political capital, looked prohibitively high. And so it seemed as if the environmentalists - after watching with what must have been a perverse glee as Bush spent much of his first 90-odd days galvanizing their ranks with eco-unfriendly announcements on everything from carbon dioxide emissions to arsenic levels in drinking water...
Since its inception in 1970, Earth Day has been an international festival of environmental celebration and protest. With President George W. Bush's rejection of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which calls on industrial nations to help slow global warming by cutting carbon dioxide emissions, environmentalists and governments alike might be excused for feeling there's little to celebrate - and much to protest - as this year's Earth Day (April 22) rolls around...
...decade ago, the idea that the planet was warming up as a result of human activity was largely theoretical. We knew that since the Industrial Revolution began in the 18th century, factories, power plants, automobiles and farms have been loading the atmosphere with heat-trapping gases, including carbon dioxide and methane. But evidence that the climate was actually getting hotter was still murky...
...Faced with these hard facts, scientists no longer doubt that global warming is happening, and almost nobody questions the fact that humans are at least partly responsible. Nor are the changes over. Already, humans have increased the concentration of carbon dioxide, the most abundant heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, to 30% above pre-industrial levels - and each year the rate of increase gets faster. The obvious conclusion: temperatures will keep going...