From Reuters, 3/17/05:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050317/sc_nm/environment_climate_dc_1
No Stopping Global Warming, Studies Predict
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
Even if people stopped pumping out carbon dioxide and other pollutants
tomorrow, global warming would still get worse, two teams of
researchers reported on Thursday.
Sea levels will rise more than they have already risen, worsening the
damage caused by extreme high tides and storm surges, and droughts,
heat waves and storms will become more severe, the climate experts
predicted.
That makes immediate action to slow global warming even more vital,
the teams at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado
report in the journal Science.
"Even if we stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations, the climate will
continue to warm, and there will be proportionately even more sea
level rise," said the NCAR's Gerald Meehl, who led one of the two
studies.
"The longer we wait, the more climate change we are committed to in
the future."
Virtually no one disagrees human activity is fueling global warming,
and a global treaty signed in Kyoto, Japan, aims to reduce polluting
emissions.
But the world's biggest polluter, the United States, has withdrawn
from the 1997 treaty, saying its provisions would hurt the U.S.
economy.
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"The world's biggest polluter, the United States, has withdrawn from
the 1997 treaty, saying its provisions would hurt the U.S. economy."
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