New Republican leaders emerging in battle against climate change

The task force report referenced here is the same referenced in the article I posted last week alongside responses from all over the net. So we can add the congressional response detailed in this article to the wildly wide scope of responses to the statement that in ten years climate change will reach a point of no return.


New Republican leaders emerging in battle against climate change | Grist Magazine | Muckraker | 04 Feb 2005: "Last week, an international task force co-chaired by Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine) predicted a fast-approaching 'point of no return' for climate change -- possibly in as few as 10 years -- after which the crisis and its symptoms will be irreversible.

You probably didn't read about it in the U.S. papers, which largely ignored the findings -- just as you probably haven't been reading much about the Kyoto Protocol, though the treaty will go into effect in less than two weeks, with the conspicuous noncooperation of the world's most heavily polluting nation.

But, even as the Bush administration tries its darndest to pretend that nothing fishy is afoot with the climate, a handful of Republicans in the Senate are emerging as leaders in the fight against global warming -- and we don't just mean John McCain. [...]"