Word: fossilize
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...global warming debate is over. The world is warming, and humans are responsible. Human activity, such as the burning of fossil fuels, has "contributed substantially to the observed warming over the last 50 years." So concludes the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the premiere international body of climate experts, in a draft of their Third Assessment Report set to be released early next year. The debate now revolves around two questions: How quickly will this warming take place, and what will the effects of this warming be? Both are valid scientific questions and currently the subjects of additional research...
...emissions to seven percent below their 1990 levels, or 17 percent below today's emissions levels. However, our strategy for achieving these reductions has focused predominantly on taking action outside U.S. borders instead of improving our domestic energy efficiency or promoting the use of energy sources other than fossil fuels. As such, the U.S. is not willing to commit itself to a real solution to the problem...
...here, unless they think of a mild-mannered gent with a muskrat toupee who was recently seen fulminating on the lack of standards in contemporary TV (We know, we know, the kids say - it's not nearly gross enough). Perhaps it is natural for every forerunner to become a fossil if he lives long enough. Allen didn't live quite long enough; he was just 78 when he died last Sunday, and was still producing books, songs and impudent opinions at an exhausting rate. But this longtime talker will be remembered - and damnit, kids, remember this - as the creator...
...Earth is warming--that's a fact. Burning fossil fuels raises atmospheric CO2-concentrations--that's a fact, too. But that anthropologically elevated CO2-levels contribute to global warming--that's a religious question. Or so it has long seemed...
...assessments in 1995 and 1990), made a dramatic shift from their earlier, more conservative stance as a result of five years of intensive research compiled by teams around the world. This report placed the onus for the trend squarely upon the shoulders of a society whose reckless burning of fossil fuels has altered the earth's atmosphere and contributed substantially to the observed warming over the last 50 years...