...for some time. As early as 1988, scientists noted that human tinkering with the climate amounted to "an unintended, uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment...consequences could be second only to a global nuclear war." Each successive report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the most authoritative body...

...economic equity: The World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environmental Programme warn that 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...

...international scientific conference on global warming is held in Toronto, and its report concludes that "humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled,...globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequences are second only to global nuclear war." The United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization...

...the poor. In l988, a conference of over 300 scientists and policymakers from 46 countries declared that "humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled,...consequences could be second only to a global nuclear war." Greenhouse warming is a problem in search of a solution. It is often difficult to avoid a sense of...