February 08, 2003 -
Russia: Wild Card in Kyoto Pact -
By Steve Kettmann, WiredNews, 02:00 AM
Feb. 08, 2003 PT, Fears are mounting
among environmentalists that the Bush
administration has embarked on a fresh
effort to kill an international treaty on
reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by
pressuring Russia to bow out, too. Late
last year, Canada joined Europe in
ratifying the controversial Kyoto
Protocol, which President Bush had
famously declared "dead." That left Russia
as the last variable in the tense
worldwide wrangling over the protocol's
fate. If it gets ratified -- as President
Vladimir Putin announced last year it
would -- enough countries would be on
board to trigger worldwide
implementation...
February 06, 2003 -
Bush Promotes Hydrogen Fuel Cells
- By Associated Press,
WASHINGTON -- President Bush on Thursday urged Congress to "think beyond
the normal" and approve his plan to spur development of clean-burning
hydrogen fuel cells to power cars that he said would reduce pollution
and America's foreign oil dependence. In a National Building Museum
speech, Bush promoted his request for $1.2 billion in federal money over
five years into hydrogen fuel-cell research. The money is aimed at
finding ways to get the fuel to where it can be used. Without fueling
stations, nobody will want to buy the cars, even when they land in
showrooms a decade or more from now...
February 04, 2003 -
Warming Oceans Linked to Four Year Drought -
By Cat Lazaroff, CAMP SPRINGS, Maryland, (ENS) -
Droughts that spread across the United States, southern Europe and
southwest Asia over the past four years may have been linked by a common
thread: ocean conditions created by a warming climate. A new study
suggests that cold sea surface temperatures in the eastern tropical
Pacific and warm sea surface temperatures in the western tropical
Pacific and Indian Oceans worked together to cause widespread drying...
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