Not exact matches
A front - page article and
headline on April 24 reported that the Global Climate Coalition, a group that throughout the 1990s represented industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, knew
about the scientific consensus that
greenhouse gas emissions could cause global warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emissions.
In the scorching summer of 1988, when global warming first hit
headlines in a significant way, presidential candidate George H.W. Bush used a Michigan speech to pledge meaningful action curbing heat - trapping
greenhouse gases, saying, «Those who think we are powerless to do anything
about the
greenhouse effect forget
about the White House effect.»
(06/14/2010) Late last year Indonesia made global
headlines with a bold pledge to reduce deforestation, which claimed nearly 28 million hectares (108,000 square miles) of forest between 1990 and 2005 and is the source of
about 80 percent of the country's
greenhouse gas emissions.