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Article: How Climate Change is Affecting the PCB Industry.
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- CircuiTree
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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The subject of my column for this issue is global warming and, in particular, the contrast in approaches to it adopted by the governments of the U.K. and the U.S. Although not everyone is convinced man-made global warming is actually occurring, its potential effects have been well known and studied for many years. Indeed, recent predictions indicate that if the use of fossil fuels is not reduced dramatically, the Earth's temperature at the end of this century could be 6[degrees]C above the 1990 level. The possible impact of global warming was also significant enough to lead to the generation of the Kyoto Protocol, which was signed by many of the world's major ...