The Register version does not make sense. Since when do environmentalists
favor adapting to inevitable climate changes as a preferred strategy? I
think a mistake was made, or the editor of the article was confused. Very
strange indeed.

Jack

on 6/4/02 11:12 AM, Jane Clark at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Global Warming, New York Times articleThanks for sending this, Jack.  The
> fourth paragraph was especially interesting.
>
> "It recommends adapting to inevitable changes. It does not recommend making
> rapid reductions in greenhouse gases to limit warming, the approach favored
> by many environmental groups and countries that have accepted the Kyoto
> Protocol, a climate treaty written in the Clinton administration that was
> rejected by Mr. Bush. "
>
> A shortened version of this article, by Andrew Revkin of the New York Times,
> appeared in the Des Moines Register yesterday, page 3A.  Here is the
> paragraph as it read in the Register:
>
> "It instead recommends adating to inevitable changes.  That is the approach
> favored by many environmental groups and countries and have accepted the
> Kyoto Protocol, a Clinon-era climate treaty that the Bush Administration
> rejected."
>
> What a very strange editing change.
>
> Jane Clark
>
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