Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change
it is generating among other governments, Bush’s withdrawal from the Kyoto process may be the first step in the transfer of glob ...
PART ONE Human Impacts The scientific consensus... about human-induced climate change should sound alarm bells in every national ...
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My first morning in China, I was unexpectedly stricken with a fear known to all working journalists: Did I come all this way in ...
ond-largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, trailing only the United States. I bounced out of bed in Beijing that Dece ...
Sure enough, the winds calmed the next day, a Friday, and over the following 10 days I witnessed the sickening descent of Beijin ...
ing the square were like spectral figures, half ghost, half flesh, as they disappeared into the gritty mist. It had now been a w ...
change—an urgent problem, to be sure, but one whose worst effects still lie in the future—while downplaying how coal burning is ...
enjoy breathing air that was so polluted it nearly glowed. Rather, what they were saying was that they were willing to put up wi ...
China (or anywhere else) a better life. Nevertheless, with 45 percent of humanity now subsisting on less than $2 a day, a diffic ...
Begin with the fact that coal is destined to remain at the heart of China’s energy picture for many years to come. Why? Because ...
average Chinese was the phasing out of honeycomb home stoves—the least efficient, most polluting means of burning coal. This pha ...
than it had been in 1995. The Project estimates that, by 2010, China’s new appliance efficiency standards will reduce projected ...
the New York Timesreported that new information from Chinese gov- ernment agencies indicate that coal use “has actually been cli ...
total energy use, hydropower is destined to remain a small share of the overall energy mix. Coal therefore is destined to remain ...
one Western consultant with regular access to senior Chinese officials put it, “They know very well they can hold the world for ...
thing; in that case, no one will have time to worry about the environ- ment. Of course, this rapid economic growth will cause ad ...
When the Dutch want to spend a summer’s day by the sea, not a few drive up to the quiet village of Petten, perched on Holland’s ...
As far as the eye can see, Petten’s ocean view is blocked by a mas- sive artificial wall, a 42-foot-tall earthen hill reinforced ...
regard the threat seriously and are taking concrete action both in their legislative bodies and on the ground. From the Netherla ...
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