Word: protocol
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...short run, there's not much chance of halting global warming, not even if every nation in the world ratifies the Kyoto Protocol tomorrow. The treaty doesn't require reductions in carbon dioxide emissions until 2008. By that time, a great deal of damage will already have been done. But we can slow things down. If action today can keep the climate from eventually reaching an unstable tipping point or can finally begin to reverse the warming trend a century from now, the effort would hardly be futile. Humanity embarked unknowingly on the dangerous experiment of tinkering with the climate...
...levels by as much as 88 cm. But last week the Atlantic Ocean seemed to be just growing wider. After U.S. President George W. Bush bluntly rejected any American role in the gargantuan, decade-long effort to forge an international agreement to slow global warming, advocates of the Kyoto Protocol in Europe reacted with howls of protest and betrayal...
...Bush Administration's critics insist that objections to the form of the international agreement are just a smokescreen; the true problem is the content. "The real issue in the end isn't the Kyoto Protocol," says Bill Hare, Climate Policy Director for Greenpeace. "It's the reduction of greenhouse emissions, and that is what the Bush Administration appears allergic...
...Many Europeans believe that Bush hasn't made clear exactly what he's opposed to. Although Bush's criticisms concern the form of the Kyoto accord, it's clear that his objections are more basic. Many Europeans believe that the real objection may not be the Kyoto Protocol itself, as much as the very idea of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions...
...Kyoto Protocol is the only game in town in their eyes," Whitman also wrote the President. "There is a real fear in the international community that if the U.S. is not willing to discuss the issue within the framework of Kyoto the whole thing will fall apart...