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Not that everyone would agree. What happened in Kyoto will not, in and of itself, stave off global warming. The treaty now known as the Kyoto Protocol dictates that by 2012 the average output of heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide--generated mostly by the burning of fossil fuels in...
The President has no interest in political suicide; neither does the Vice President, who, despite his concern about the environment, is not expected to attend the conference. They have sent delegates to Kyoto armed with a proposal that is much weaker than the E.U.'s. It would push emissions down...
At least one group of officials, however, had already pricked up their ears. NATO ministers, meeting with Russian delegates Wednesday in Brussels, are concerned about the state of up to 16,000 tactical warheads still in Moscow?s silos, and want the Russian parliament to stop dragging its feet on...
U.S. negotiators had already wrong-footed the Europeans Monday with its differential greenhouse gas plan ? each nation would get its own reduction target. Europe scoffed at that one, claiming it was a bid to get America off the climate change hook. But what of the 5 percent plan? Are both...
Hauser's sense of wonder was tempered with serious concern. Multiple pregnancies frequently end in miscarriage or stillbirth, and the risk multiplies with the number of fetuses. While septuplets have been delivered a handful of times, in no case have they all lived more than a few days or weeks...