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Article: Climate controls. (global warming)(Cover Story)
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- Reason
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- November 1, 1997
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If we treated global warming as a technical problem instead of a moral outrage, we could cool the world.
Although we are getting better and better at it, forecasting the weather is still remarkably tricky. Far easier to predict the political climate, especially when it comes to the issue of global warming. To wit: In December, negotiators from around the world will meet in Kyoto to work out an international treaty to deal with what most (though not all) scientists believe is a 0.5-degree-centigrade increase in temperatures over the past century, and the promise of more to come.
All major participants, including the U.S. representatives, will argue that the ...