DeclinetoState
04-28-2007, 09:07 PM
By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent
Sat Apr 28, 4:39 PM ET
As the world warms and scientists' warnings grow urgent, climate negotiators are counting down toward make-or-break talks later this year, hoping for progress on a long-term deal to sharply reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
Experts are beginning to fear, however, that as time runs down the best that can be hoped for may be an extension of the relatively weak Kyoto Protocol, due to expire in 2012. The alternative is a world without any carbon-reduction rules at all.
The year's bad news on climate change is coming in installments.
In February, a U.N.-sponsored scientific network reported that unabated global warming would produce a far different planet by 2100, from rising seas, drought and other factors. In early April, the scientists said animal and plant life was already being disrupted.
More (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070428/ap_on_sc/climate_talks;_ylt=Aqap2WQxcFL2C6Wfd_I6rozMWM0F)
Sat Apr 28, 4:39 PM ET
As the world warms and scientists' warnings grow urgent, climate negotiators are counting down toward make-or-break talks later this year, hoping for progress on a long-term deal to sharply reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
Experts are beginning to fear, however, that as time runs down the best that can be hoped for may be an extension of the relatively weak Kyoto Protocol, due to expire in 2012. The alternative is a world without any carbon-reduction rules at all.
The year's bad news on climate change is coming in installments.
In February, a U.N.-sponsored scientific network reported that unabated global warming would produce a far different planet by 2100, from rising seas, drought and other factors. In early April, the scientists said animal and plant life was already being disrupted.
More (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070428/ap_on_sc/climate_talks;_ylt=Aqap2WQxcFL2C6Wfd_I6rozMWM0F)