Word: luft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...