Climate Change: Time To Get Serious

We need to get serious about climate change and redesign our energy system.

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June 4, 2002, 6:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"President Bush has no serious strategies for climate change...He rejected the Kyoto accord on climate change and repudiated a campaign pledge to seek firm limits on carbon dioxide, the main contributor to the warming of the earth's atmosphere. He then proposed a voluntary scheme. It appears from the U.N. report to consist largely of finding ways to adapt to warming instead of preventing it. Congress has done no better. "

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Read the full story: Crossroads on Global Warming

Monday, June 3, 2002 in The New York Times

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