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Carbon-dioxide emissions from the consumption and flaring of fossil fuels (in billions of metric tons...
...wiping out the salmon of the West Coast, just as we wiped out cod from the East Coast, but we continue overfishing. We keep driving our suvs in the city, even though we are starting to feel the effects of climate change--a direct result of burning too much fossil fuel...
...phaseout of chemicals called chloroflurocarbons will help reduce the hole in the ozone layer, right, but the continued burning of fossil fuels will lead to hotter times in the future...
Nowhere is presidential leadership more lacking than in the debate over global warming. It took the Bush Administration 16 months to acknowledge what scientists have known for more than a decade: the same pollution--primarily from fossil fuels--that causes asthma and respiratory illness is also altering and warming the atmosphere. Refusing to address climate change may bring unprecedented environmental damage to the health and well-being of people throughout the world...
...permits to emit greenhouse gases. "The power of the free market is that it can restore nature's wealth as it increases financial wealth," Sandor says. Just how much wealth? He estimates that a global market in greenhouse gases--released with the burning of oil, coal and other fossil fuels--could amount to hundreds of billions of dollars a year...