U.S. Scuttles Latest Chance to Avert Global Warming Catastrophe Given the U.S. performance at the latest round of global warming negotiations at the Hague, it's hard to see how George W. Bush could do any worse than the Clinton-Gore administration. The U.S. has isolated itself not only from its European allies, but also from developing countries and even a growing number of corporations. America has given new meaning to the term "outlaw nation." It's not as though the danger signs were hidden from U.S. negotiators. Within the past year, drought-driven wildfires consumed more than six million acres in the West. The nine-foot-deep ice pack at the North Pole melted into a mile-wide lake. And more than 2,000 scientists reported to the UN that warming later in this century exceed their previous estimates of 6: F and will more likely approach a catastrophic 11: F. Nonetheless, the U.S. insisted that it meet its paltry obligation under the Kyoto Protocol (emissions reductions of seven percent below 1990 levels) simply by planting trees [whole article at: http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/commentary/0102warming.html _______________________________________________ CrashList website: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base
