...for Global Security." The conference concluded that global atmospheric problems were the product of "an unintended, uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment...consequences could be second only to a global nuclear war, "4and recommended national efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 20 per cent by the year 2005. Energy...

...the policies already announced by the Administration could stabilize US CO 2 emissions at a profit. Scientific Basis for a Climate Protection Treaty The...global nuclear war," and called on the world to cut CO ; emissions from fossil fuel combustion 20% by 2005. In the last two years the declaration of this...

...Conference on the Changing Atmosphere. The concluding statement summarized the current situation as follows: "Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled,...whose ultimate consequences could be second only to global war." In the intervening two years, the geo-political situation has steadily improved, while...

...plenary session, the Conference issued a statement which concluded that: Humanity is conducting an uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment whose...consequences could be second only to a global nuclear war. The Earth's atmosphere is being changed at an unprecedented rate by pollutants resulting from human...

...non-governmental organizations participated. The Conference reached the following conclusions (DOE 1988): "Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled,...consequences could be second only to a global nuclear war. The Earth's atmosphere is being changed at an unprecedented rate by pollutants resulting from human...

...emission of harmful gases in the earth's atmosphere. Humanity is conducting an enormous, unintended, globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequences could be second only to a global nuclear war. Such was the warning given by a group of scientists and strategists who met early in 1988 in Toronto,...

...Scientists and policymakers discuss global warming in a workshop session at the 1 988 Toronto Conference. globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequences could be second only to a global nuclear war." Seven months later, the UN General Assembly echoed these concerns and encouraged governments around...

...pollution. She also mentions the noted Toronto Conference on the Changing Atmosphere, which warned in 1988, "Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled,...consequences could be second only to a global nuclear war." Leaf and Lashoff, as well as many other individuals and environmental organizations, are critical of...

...conference on the changing atmosphere. The conference's final statement described climate warming as "an unintended, uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment...consequences could be second only to a global nuclear war." 1t called for a 20 percent reduction in global COz emissions from 1988 levels by the year 2005. The...

...The widely quoted opening statement from the Toronto Conference in the changing atmosphere claimed that 'humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled,...consequences could be second only to a global nuclear war'. While the attitude of scientists appears to have changed from the time a few decades earlier. when...