That's right, global warming supposedly means drier and wetter weather. Nastier hurricanes will thrash those living along the seaboards. Global warming will also cause more intense blizzards. No section of the globe will be afforded sanctuary from nature's fury, unleashed by human hands. Species tottering on the edge of extinction and unable to adapt to rapidly changing climates will be given the final push, we are told.
Environmentalist activists say economic prosperity has come at the detriment of our planet's health.
Emissions caused from burning fossil fuels are creating a runaway greenhouse effect, they explain. Climatologists, however, don't agree on the existence or the importance of human-influenced global warming, which discounts any claims of increased natural disaster. President Clinton remains convinced that something must be done. Addressing the United Nations, he reaffirmed America's commitment to a binding agreement that cuts emissions of greenhouse gases, but stopped short of detailing the amount of CO 2 we'd have to cut. Europeans are calling on Americans to stem their use of fossil fuels by more than 30 percent, but even these reductions would hardly impact the total amount of industrial CO 2 emissions.