Word: co2
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...cordon itself off from the effects of its neighbors' pollution. Radioactive fallout from Chernobyl swept across most of the European continent. Canadian lakes are being poisoned by the belchings of U.S. smokestacks. The torching of Brazil's tropical forests each year accounts for some 6% of all the CO2 that is pumped into the atmosphere. Deforestation in Haiti and drought in Africa have prompted large cross-border refugee movements -- just a foretaste, perhaps, of the mass migrations that could result if runaway population growth outstrips world food and energy resources...
...forgetting about the White House effect. As President, I intend to do something about it." He should be held to that promise not just by his own countrymen but by the whole world. The U.S., with 5% of the earth's population, produces nearly 25% of all the CO2 from fossil fuels...
...electricity by utilities -- as well as consumption by homes and businesses -- more efficient; and a major research- and-development program for alternative sources of energy. So far, the Bush Administration has not pushed for any of those measures. Nor has it proposed or endorsed any legislation mandating cuts in CO2 emissions...
...constant guerrilla warfare against any effort to make good on the President's prior commitments. Meanwhile, the President's chief of staff John Sununu has taken to questioning aspects of the greenhouse theory. There is room for debate over the exact magnitude of climate change that will result from CO2 emissions, but no respectable scientist denies that if humanity keeps pouring gases into the atmosphere, the earth will heat up. The U.S. has spent several trillion dollars over the past 40 years buying insurance against a Soviet nuclear attack. Global warming, by contrast, is not just a risk...
Next week environmental officials from around the world will meet in the Netherlands to discuss concerted steps on CO2 emissions. The U.S. will be there, but probably without a policy. In February the U.S. will be host to an international conference on climate change in Washington. Bush is expected to address the conference. The temperature in the hall will probably be more comfortable than it was when he gave his "I am an environmentalist" speech in the hot summer of 1988. But unless he has more to show on the greenhouse effect than rhetoric, the President should be mopping...