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To: Douglas V. Fant who wrote (71224)	8/20/2000 8:14:38 AM
From: ldo79	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

Doug: You must be joking - waive air quality requirements! Never!!!!! Well, maybe never. Read this one from Bloomberg. 08/19 15:36 Global Warming Study Proposes Strategy Shift, N.Y. Times Says By Tamra Fitzpatrick Washington, Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- A new study concludes that the quickest way to slow global warming is to cut emissions of greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide, a shift in strategy following a nearly 20-year emphasis on reducing carbon dioxide, the New York Times reported. Carbon dioxide emissions are a byproduct of burning fossil fuels such as coal and oil to, for example, generate electricity. Reducing these emissions was one of the aims of the 1997 United Nations convention on climate change, known as the Kyoto Protocol, which set targets for individual countries' future carbon dioxide emissions. Yet the warming seen in recent decades has been caused mainly by heat-trapping emissions such as methane, chlorofluorocarbons, black particles of diesel and the ozone in smog, according to the new findings reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The study said that these gases are easier to control than carbon dioxide and that many of them are already on the decline, the Times reported. The burning of fossil fuels, while raising carbon dioxide levels, also produces a pall of particle haze that reflects as much of the sun's energy back into space as the release of carbon dioxide traps in the atmosphere, the Times reported, citing study author James E. Hansen, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goddard Institute. ____________________ Don't you love it when a plan comes together? Regards