THAT SINKING FEELING
International climate talks in The Hague, Netherlands, collapsed on
Saturday, with U.S. and European negotiators unable to agree on a
plan for reducing emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.  Two
weeks of negotiations were intended to flesh out the details of the
Kyoto climate change treaty, but in the end the Europeans rejected a
plan that they said would have allowed the U.S. to get too much
credit for calling its forests and farmlands carbon sinks, thereby
avoiding real cuts in the burning of fossil fuels and emissions of
carbon dioxide.  It was the second blow of the week for the top
American negotiator, Frank E. Loy, who on Wednesday got hit in the
face with a custard pie by an environmentalist.  The real obstacle to
progress on climate change, writes Bill McKibben in Grist, is that
Americans just don't realize how deadly serious the problem is.

read it only in Grist Magazine:  A wrap-up from The Hague -- by Bill
McKibben
<http://www.gristmagazine.com/grist/maindish/mckibben112700.stm>

straight to the source:  New York Times, Andrew Revkin, 26 Nov 2000
<http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/26/science/26CLIM.html>

straight to the source:  CNN.com, 22 Nov 2000
<http://www.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/11/22/hague.conference/>



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