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...also be presenting the American people with a more honest depiction of its environmental dilemma. Following intensive lobbying by the energy industry and a policy review by Vice President Cheney, the White House on Tuesday backed away from a Bush campaign pledge to regulate power plants' output of carbon dioxide - the gas whose massive buildup inside the Earth's atmosphere is believed by most scientists to create the "greenhouse effect" that causes global warming...
...many Europeans these days, the charmless fate of America feels very much like what the poet W.H. Auden described as the state of most poets' output: good ideas, badly executed. Wealthy, work-obsessed, gobbling down small, hurried pleasures in cholesterol-laden chunks as we contemplate the risings and fallings of the Dow, we tend to forget that charm, as Camus observed in The Fall, can provide us with "a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question...
...Swaminathan, architect of the Indian "green revolution" in the late 1960s that doubled crop yields in just four years, painted a confident picture on Friday of sustained rises in agricultural output in the developing world, fueled by genetically-modified foods and other new technologies...
Since water is key to agriculture, that could mean a gloomier forecast for continued rises in farming output, though Rogers said he did not necessarily dispute Swaminathan's outlook...
...real test for Bush will be what he does about global warming. Scientists now warn that unless we cut output of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, the earth could heat up by more than 10[degrees]F this century. Clinton made speeches about the threat and sent Al Gore to Japan to help negotiate the Kyoto protocol to curb carbon emissions. But then they made no real effort to build support for the preliminary agreement, which has yet to be turned into a detailed treaty that nations can ratify. Bush has opposed the Kyoto pact because it exempts China...