Sentences with phrase «warming treaty reached»

DETROIT — AP — Environmentalists are claiming victory following General Motors Corp.'s decision to quit a lobbying group that has led the opposition to a 1997 global warming treaty reached in Kyoto, Japan.

Environmentalists are claiming victory following General Motors Corp.'s (GM) decision to quit a lobbying group that has led the opposition to a 1997 global warming treaty reached in Kyoto, Japan.

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The global warming / climate change noise machine has reached a crescendo this week with Al Gore's trip to Oslo to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize, our colleges sponsoring» Focus the Nation» weeks to promote the self - evident moral truth of combating warming, and above all the U.N. - sponsored Bali conference meant to produce a treaty to succeed the soon - to - expire Kyoto.

The north Queensland coral wipeout occurred around the same time that global temperature rise was reaching the halfway point toward the 3.6 °F of warming that a new United Nations treaty aims to prevent.

The declaration calls on the United Nations to discontinue work on a new treaty until a genuine «scientific consensus is reached on the phenomenon of so - called global warming,» including both its natural and human causes.

A New York Times / CBS News poll conducted shortly before the agreement was reached found that 66 percent of Americans think the United States should «join an international treaty requiring America to reduce emissions in an effort to fight global warming.»

After world leaders announced over the weekend that no legally binding global warming treaty would be reached at the upcoming Copenhagen summit, the post mortems have started coming in fast and furious.