Senate urges Bush to act on climate change

Climate. The Bush administration's approach to climate change.

A s a signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the United States shares with many countries its ultimate objective: stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that prevents dangerous interference with the climate system. Meeting this UNFCCC objective will require a long-term commitment and international collaboration. Pres...

Systems Practice - How to Act in a Climate-Change World

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Bush administration and the Democratic senate wrestle with health care.

As his administration approaches its 6-month mark, President Bush has filled his cabinet, survived a showdown with China over a spy plane, and seen his $1.35 trillion tax cut passed by the House and Senate—just as the Republicans lost control of the Senate with the change of party by Senator James Jeffords of Vermont, who became an independent. Yet Bush and the new Senate Majority leader Tom Da...

U . S . Senate Committee on Commerce , Science , and Transportation Hearing on ‘ The Case for Climate Change Action ’ October 1 , 2003

Projections of future climate change made using state-of-the-art climate models suggest that changes over the coming century will be much larger than experienced over the past 100 years. The case for taking action to mitigate these human-induced (or ‘anthropogenic’) changes rests on the credibility of these models. There is a vast scientific literature on the development and testing of these mo...

Letter to Editor: Climate Change and Waterborne Diseases