U.S. Told to Quit Dragging Feet on Global Warming Plans
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The Bush administration is violating the law by withholding two scientific reports it is obligated to release, a federal judge rules.
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BUENOS AIRES -- The world's chief climate scientist yesterday disputed the US government's contention that cutbacks in carbon dioxide emissions are not yet warranted to slow the pace of global warming.
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U.S. President George W. Bush, under fire for resisting tough action on global warming, on Thursday called on about 15 influential countries to agree by the end of 2008 on a long-term goal to cut emissions.
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Green lobbyists and several U.S. cities hope a lawsuit against U.S. development agencies will force the government to act on global warming, even though President Bush has long insisted there's no scientific proof linking human activity to warming.
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Environment secretary calls on US to agree to binding goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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U.S. scientists were pressured to tailor their writings on global warming to fit the Bush administration's skepticism, in some cases at the behest of a former oil-industry lobbyist, a congressional committee heard on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is drastically scaling back efforts to measure global warming from space, just as the president tries to convince the world the U.S. is ready to take the lead in reducing greenhouse gases.
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The Kyoto Protocol, which aims to slow down global warming, takes effect, but the US remains outside it.
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Negotiators worked through the final day of a two-week U.N. conference Friday in search of a way to bring the United States back into long-term talks on controlling global warming. A key European official saw a "50-50" chance of compromise.
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A climate conference opened on Tuesday to renewed concern about the worsening threat of global warming and appeals from Britain to its ally, the United States, not to stand on the sidelines.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - The United States will refuse to agree to targets and timetables for cutting greenhouse gases at a summit of the Group of Eight starting on Wednesday, a senior adviser to President George W. Bush said.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed hope Thursday that the "active debate" in the U.S. administration and Congress on global warming will spur the United States to take a leadership role in combatting climate change.
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This Tuesday came another report by scientists who stress that global warming is advancing with dire consequences in the Arctic regions and beyond, while the Bush administration continues to insist that such reports contain &quot;nothing new&quot; to cause it to
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A NASA climate expert planned to say in a lecture that a Bush administration official told him not to discuss the consequences of global warming.
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The US tells a UN conference on climate change it has no intention of joining the Kyoto Protocol in the near future.
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The world&#39;s chief climate scientist disputed yesterday the US government&#39;s contention that cutbacks in carbon-dioxide emissions are not warranted to slow global warming.
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More than 100 corporate heads, international organizations and experts set out a plan on Tuesday to cut greenhouse gas emissions, calling on governments to act urgently against global warming.