But enviros applaud

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 246 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1040-6190
• DOI: 10.1016/1040-6190(94)90095-7

✦ Synopsis

But Enviros Applaud

Chafe Change Fires Stoked; Critics Hit KC News Release T" e battle over global warming heated up in mid-September, as an Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change group meeting in Maastricht, The Netherlands, announced a "Special Report on Radiative Forcing" prepared by British climate scientist John Houghton and released a controversial news release that proclaimed that the world's climate was at serious risk. The IPCC is a United Nations-based international entity, for which the U.S. provides a goodly share of funding and talent.

According to the IPCC press mlease, the "special report" signified "that mankind's emissions of greenhouse gases are indeed the pin