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...nation U.N. World Climate Conference that ended last week in Berlin, a lobbyist for the "Global Climate Coalition," a consortium of U.S. coal, gas and oil producers, bustled about confidently, warning against "dramatic, excessive" carbon dioxide controls and against "stifling" economic growth with "irrational new emission caps." The conference saw global warming differently, perhaps influenced by the Rhode Island-size hunk of shelf ice that broke off Antarctica recently. Jokers outside the conference peddled cans of Official Heisse Luft, or hot air, but the nations gathered wits and courage, and voted to begin negotiating precise CO2 limits...
...Speaker--class of '78--says he's not afraid that his followers will get out ahead of him. At heart he's still a freshman too. ``It is highly unlikely they will hold my feet to the fire,'' he insists. ``I'm the guy that pours the coal...
...coal-burning power plants in China simply do not have the economic resources to control the enormous amount of dust that they spew into the atmosphere," Murray says. "Many of the children in nearby houses experience an increased rate of respiratory problems...
...Murray also says that without electricity from those polluting plants, more families would have to burn coal in their homes for heat, which is also hazardous to one's health...
Last year's shiny silver dollar has become this season's lump of coal. The toy craze inspired by the Steven Spielberg movie has run its course, analysts say. "It was a promotional product line and, like all of them, it had a limited lifespan...