Not exact matches
My research, (
which amounts to amassing thousands of stories, websites, reports, and international meeing and
treaty summaries, along with a close following of all international bodies concerned with global
warming, into a huge, huge, disorganized, bookmark list,) indicates, that, for the worst effects of global
warming to be SOMEWHAT diminished, we would need to get under 300 ppm.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute,
which is fighting hard against
treaties or legislation limiting greenhouse gases, has pointed afresh to old media coverage pointing to «unprecedented» Arctic ice retreats and
warming early in the 20th century.
The UNFCCC
treaty,
which the United States has signed, serves as the foundation of international political efforts to combat global
warming.
«Ecological
treaties should seek to curb emissions of sulpher dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals and other highly - toxic pollutants instead of targeting carbon dioxide,
which is a non-toxic gas whose impact on global
warming has not been proved,» says Dr. Golubchikov.
In his book, The Green Wave (Capital Research Center, 2006), author Bonner Cohen notes that the companies expected to profit handsomely from the Kyoto global
warming treaty by creating the worldwide trading network in
which industries would buy and sell carbon emissions credits.»
They are meeting to try and agree to a global legally binding climate
treaty to keep global
warming below 2 degrees Celsius,
which is the agreed upon target that scientists say the world can not exceed if we are to avoid catastrophic runaway climate change.
Since its foundation it has reported regularly on the state of climate change, with its 1990 report inspiring the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the first international
treaty that aimed to reduce global
warming,
which was signed at the so - called Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
The panel, in issuing its most definitive assessment yet of the risks of human - caused
warming, hoped to give impetus to international negotiations toward a new climate
treaty,
which have languished in recent years in a swamp of technical and political disputes.
Anyway, as a result of these flaws, and again having little to do with the global
warming argument itself, the Senate voted 95 - 0 in 1997 not to sign or ratify the
treaty unless these flaws (
which still exist in the
treaty) were fixed.