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Climate change and travel go "carbon neutral".(Editorial)
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Earth Focus Une Planete/ Une Communaute
- Article date:
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June 22, 2007
- Author:
- Lipman, Geoffrey
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So now we know for sure that the world's climate is changing. And it's all because of global warming--the earth and the sea are getting hotter, the polar ice is melting and the oceans are slowly getting higher. And this means our weather patterns are shifting--some countries are getting heat waves, some are seeing hurricanes and mighty storms and many are experiencing flooding at one end of the scale and droughts at the other.
Thanks to many years of worldwide scientific research coordinated by the United Nations we can be certain that the way in which human beings use energy is the basic cause of this problem. By burning fossil fuels--coal, oil and gas--to run our ...