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Stephen Schneider of the National Center for Atmospheric Research responds that waiting for absolute certainty about global warming will produce many years of policy paralysis. Thomas Lovejoy of the Smithsonian Institution agrees, noting that societies may pay a price for doing nothing that outweighs ) the expense of prudent preparation. While the world hailed the 1987 Montreal Protocol, designed to reduce chlorofluorocarbon output, the destruction of the ozone layer continued to accelerate because of CFCs already in use. Atmospheric chemist Sherwood Rowland of the University of California at Irvine is worried that similar delays in dealing with global warming will produce...
...Alexandria participants were: Lester Brown, Worldwatch Institute; John Chafee, U.S. Senate, Rhode Island; Michael Deland, Council on Environmental Quality; Kathryn Fuller, World Wildlife Fund; Albert Gore, U.S. Senate, Tennessee; Denis Hayes, Earth Day 1990; Thomas Lovejoy, Smithsonian Institution; Michael McElroy, Harvard University; Kenneth Piddington, World Bank Environment Department; Peter Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden; F. Sherwood Rowland, University of California at Irvine; James Gustave Speth, World Resources Institute; Mostafa Tolba, United Nations Environment Program; and Alexei Yablokov, Congress of People's Deputies, U.S.S.R...
...atmosphere was hardly non-partisan. "We've been comparing the food," said Paula Lovejoy, a campaign worker for the Independent slate. "We had peanut butter and jelly from the [Working Committee for a Cambridge Rainbow,"] she said of the fledgling group that backs radical reform of city politics. But she added, "You'd think they [the Rainbow] would come up with something more creative," pointing to one Indepedent candidate who prepared a Portuguese speciality for the polls...
...heritage. Moreover, the burning of the Amazon could have dramatic effects on global weather patterns -- for example, heightening the warming trend that may result from the greenhouse effect. "The Amazon is a library for life sciences, the world's greatest pharmaceutical laboratory and a flywheel of climate," says Thomas Lovejoy of the Smithsonian Institution. "It's a matter of global destiny...
...times faster than at any time in human history," said Stephen Schneider of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Ecosystems will not be able to adjust so quickly, he said, "and the faster things change, the more likely it is that the impact will be negative." Warned Thomas Lovejoy of the Smithsonian Institution: "There will be no winners in this game of ecological chairs, for it will be fundamentally disruptive and destabilizing, and we can anticipate hordes of environmental refugees dwarfing the numbers of the Dust Bowl era or the boat people...