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Article: Putting the Globe at Risk.
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- The Nation
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- November 30, 1998
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RATHER THAN OFFER SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL WARMING, CONGRESS DENIES THE PROBLEM.
Nature is the irresistible force. The US Congress is the immovable object.
Earlier this month the nations of the world met in Buenos Aires to try to agree on how to implement the climate treaty that 166 nations signed last winter in Kyoto, Japan. The Kyoto Protocol calls for minimal reductions in greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide that cause global warming--reductions that are an order of magnitude less than what is required to stabilize the global climate. Overall, the treaty aims for a 5.2 percent decrease in coal and oil emissions by industrial nations by 2012, with the ...