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Though the issue is still controversial, many scientists believe that a documented rise in carbon dioxide levels worldwide has caused large-scale climate changes. If the trend continues, it could lead to environmental problems such as the melting of polar ice caps and a rise in ocean levels across the globe...
Even so, board members agree that forecasts of U.S. output next year need to be lowered half a percentage point or so. Post-Asia, Carl Weinberg, chief international economist of High Frequency Economics, a market and economic analytical firm, foresees a 2.5% rise in gross domestic product, down from 3.6% this year but near the pace many economists think can be sustained year after year. He expects inflation to creep up--but from only...
Weinberg thinks that by the end of 1998 unemployment may rise to 5.2%, but Sinai believes it initially might dip just under the 24-year low of 4.7%, registered in October. Either way, labor markets will remain very tight, and that affects almost every aspect of the outlook for next year...
...Chicken Little scare story. In theory it made sense: we are burning more and more coal and oil; coal and oil generate carbon dioxide gas; carbon dioxide traps the sun's heat like the glass of a greenhouse. In theory, therefore, the earth's temperature should be on the rise--with potentially disastrous consequences that could include inundated coastlines, drastically altered weather, severe disturbances to agriculture, and tropical diseases' pushing into new territory. But the effect was still too small to be measured with any confidence. Indeed, when James Hansen, of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Science, proclaimed...
...many contentious factions can agree on anything at all is uncertain. Even if by some chance all 170 countries endorsed the toughest proposal on the table, global warming would only be slowed. "If we stopped emitting greenhouse gases today," says Clinton's science adviser, John Gibbons, "temperatures would rise another several degrees...