Word: carbonization
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...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 and power plants and 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...
...Then again, McCain never did bring out Bush's kinder, gentler side - and neither does the Bill Clinton legacy. From overseas abortion funding to carbon-dioxide emissions, Bush has been eager to show he is a political child of the Reagan years, and willing to play the reactionary if the conservatives chant loud enough. And now that the Clinton boom is stumbling, Bush sees an opportunity to take back fiscal policy for the GOP. Tax cuts and government shrinkage - those are sacred conservative cows, and we've already seen some of Bush's best hardball as he goes down...
TIME.com: Europeans are outraged by President Bush's rejection of the Kyoto accord. But with the 500-pound guerrilla of carbon-gas output saying no to cutting emissions, what options are left to the Europeans...
...even individual behavior. And no U.S. leader has yet been willing to confront the American people with that uncomfortable reality. Which means that Chancellor Schroeder may have been wasting his breath. President Bush, under pressure from the energy industry, recently tore up his own campaign promise to cut carbon-dioxide outputs from power stations. And if he's prepared to treat his own environment secretary like Cinderella, he was always going to give short shrift to the pleas of a German "Third Way" socialist...