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...Neither Lindzen nor Christy (both IPCC authors) doubts, however, that humans are influencing the climate. But they question how much?and how high temperatures will go. Both scientists are distressed that only the most extreme scenarios, based on huge population growth and the maximum use of dirty fuels like coal, have made headlines...
...Ancien Economy worries?squeezing cash out of his very real assets to pay his very real debts. Mr. Li, congratulations, you now own a phone company. And while you're here in the Old Economy?or let's call it the economy, shall we??we've got a few coal mines you might be interested in buying. You'll be paying cash, of course...
...moderate, called climate change "a credibility issue'' in a March 6 memo to Bush. Now she looks like a wounded dove in an Administration where the hawks appear ascendant. Says Dan Becker of the Sierra Club, a venerable American conservation group: "People are stunned with how quickly the coal and oil industries got what they wanted...
...fall in some cases, here they've grown a substantial amount every year since 1990. In other words, a 7 percent cut on 1990 levels may require a cut of 20 to 30 percent on current output levels - cuts that can be achieved only by reducing consumption of gasoline, coal and other fossil fuels. In other words, a profound and expensive shift in everything from America's energy sources to its lifestyle...
...White House, they should to into the country and work with people" to build grassroots support for Kyoto, says Stephan Singer, a World Wildlife Fund official in Brussels. "They should go explain to farmers who are opposed to Kyoto and to unions opposed to Kyoto that there cannot be coal mining forever...