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Bush global warming plan would make study of natural causes of climate change top goal

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WASHINGTON _ The chief goal in a White House plan to study global warming is learning more about natural causes of climate change, drawing criticism from environmentalists who say reducing industrial carbon emissions is the real problem.

The new 10-year plan and $130 million proposal to speed up research in some high-priority areas was being released Thursday by Commerce Secretary Don Evans and Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham.

The first of the 364-page plan's five goals is to study the "natural variability" in climate change. The second is to find better ways of measuring climate effects from burning fossil fuels, industrial production of warming gases and ...

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