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Article: Climate Change Conference Highlights Successful Government Models.(Innovative Policy Solutions to Global Climate Change conference)
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- Nation's Cities Weekly
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- May 15, 2000
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Participants Slam U.S. Efforts as Inadequate
Is our climate changing? Is our weather getting weirder? Do human-induced carbon dioxide ([CO.sub.2]) emissions and other greenhouse gases--created when we burn fossil fuels--contribute to global warming?
These questions were not the subject of debate at a recent international conference sponsored by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change because virtually all present were from one side of the issue. Instead, participants gathered to share answers and "Innovative Policy Solutions to Global Climate Change."
Listening to presenters it seemed that global warming and climate change are a given because no ...