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Utilities favor a tax on fossil fuels, as car exhausts are partly implicated in acid rain. The proposal might be a good addition to a compromise, "spread the burden" plan...
Where the bird collection is numbered by specimen, though, the invertebrate paleontology collection is quantified in tonnage or groups of fossils. This fall the department had to throw away almost 20 tons of fossils because they were taking up too much room and no one could catalogue them. Only four fossil collections surpass Harvard...
...scientists. But last week a media brouhaha was triggered by new studies from the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Academy of Sciences. Both groups agreed on a startling prognosis: the earth is warming up from all the carbon dioxide being spilled into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels, and worse, the first effects of the climatic changes could be felt as early as the 1990s...
...feet by 2025 (thereby inundating some low-lying areas in coastal cities such as Charleston, S.C., and Galveston, Texas); and drastically changing rainfall patterns, especially in the breadbasket areas of the Midwest, where reduced precipitation could jeopardize crops. Nothing, not even a sharp cutback in the use of fossil fuels, the EPA added, could alter this climatic course...
Ruckelshaus professed surprise at the strong public reaction. After all, he pointed out, "we can't say any of these things for certain." Scientists noted that researchers have been cautioning for nearly a century that the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas) is steadily increasing the atmosphere's CO2 content. The invisible gas itself is not dangerous. In fact, it is vital to green plants, which combine CO2 with water in the presence of sunlight to produce carbohydrates...