Word: carbonic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Francis Berlandi of Touchstone Environmental Consultants tested the school's air for silicone, sulphur, chloride, iron, calcium, volatile organic compounds, formaldehyde, pesticides, carbon monoxide and airborne bacteria, but according to Giroux he did not find higher than normal concentrations of any of these. However, ventilation was found to be poor, Giroux added...
...addition, several experts who have visited the school have concluded that the extent of the problem was limited to ventilation. Giroux said that in 1983, a committee from the state found a high, but non-toxic level of carbon dioxide at the school. Later that year, David A. Link, chief of pediatrics at the Harvard-affiliated Mt. Auburn Hospital, confirmed those results...
...badgering Pons and Fleischmann for information, and why they are giving it out so cautiously. A practical technique for creating useful fusion energy at low temperatures could change the world forever by providing a source of virtually limitless power. Moreover, the process would generate no pollutants -- not even carbon dioxide, which many scientists fear is warming the globe in a greenhouse effect. A fusion plant would give off much less radiation than do conventional nuclear-power generators. And it would essentially run on seawater. Any scientist who managed to harness fusion would be guaranteed a Nobel Prize for Physics...
Sarney framed the issue as a battle between developed and developing nations. It is the rich countries, he claimed, that create most of the industrial waste, acid rain and carbon dioxide that pollute the atmosphere. "We will not accept tutelage," the President declared. "We will accept responsibility for the defense of our territory." Sarney reiterated his rejection of so-called debt-for-nature swaps, in which foreign debt is forgiven in exchange for conservation efforts, as just one more way for those who covet the Amazon to meddle in Brazil's affairs...
Scarce resources and increasing dependence on foreign oil are only part of the reason to push for fuel conservation. Scientists are increasingly ) convinced that the burning of fossil fuels is contributing to the greenhouse effect, a potentially dangerous warming of the globe caused by carbon dioxide and other exhaust gases. Unless the growth of fuel consumption is slowed dramatically or nonfossil energy sources, including solar and nuclear, are expanded rapidly, the world could face climatic changes leading to widespread flooding and famine...