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Article: Hot air in Berlin.(conference on regulation of carbon dioxide emissions)(Column)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 1995
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THE just-ended United Nations Climate Conference in Berlin saw governments of 130 countries discussing how to share the pain of internationally agreed and legally enforced reductions in carbon- dioxide emissions. In case you're feeling hazy, CO2 is the poisonous stuff we all breathe out -- and that we also generate by the combustion of oil, gas, or coal in motor vehicles, heating, power plants, and various industrial processes. The host, German chancellor Helmut Kohl, set the apocalyptic tone by saying that drastically reducing CO2 output was vital to ``guarantee a life worth living in the twenty-first century and beyond.''
Though the Berlin conference reached ...