Word: carbone
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...issue is very much on the agenda this week as representatives of more than 150 nations gathered in Kyoto, Japan, wrangle over how to cut emissions of man-made carbon dioxide, a culprit in the ominous warming of the global climate. In the U.S., the vehicle population has grown six times as fast as the human population, reaching 176 million cars and trucks. American autos are 90% cleaner than they were three decades ago, but they still account for over a third of urban-area ozone. More than 125 million Americans breathe unhealthy air, and an estimated...
...Europe, Southeast Asia and all sorts of places in between, something remarkable is happening. New, carbon-free energy technologies that do not rely on fossil fuels are moving from experimental curiosity to commercial reality, economically turning sunlight, wind and other renewable resources into useful forms of energy. Although the new devices provide less than 1% of the world's energy, they are advancing rapidly. If the negotiators wrapping up their 10-day meeting in Kyoto this week are looking for an engineering solution to the problems of global warming and climate change, these technologies could provide the blueprint...
TAKE THE T-BIRD AWAY After 80 years of dominance by the internal-combustion engine, a new kind of automobile is on the way. Several major auto manufacturers are designing hybrid electric cars that have twice the fuel economy and half the carbon-dioxide emissions of today's vehicles. The sticker price is admittedly a few thousand dollars higher but is largely offset by lower fuel bills. Toyota plans to bring the first such car to the market in Japan this week, and other carmakers will soon follow suit (see following story...
...University voted against or abstained in the votes on 21 environmental reform plans. The reforms would have included researching the elimination of nuclear power plants, stopping oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and requiring reporting on carbon dioxide emissions...
After 11 days of negotiation, the industrialized nations have hammered out a deal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to between 6 and 8 percent below 1990 levels. So now we can forget about global warming, right? Wrong. As TIME science correspondent Michael Lemonick points out, it'll take a cut 10 times that size to stop the planet from overheating...