Daily News Article - December 12, 2006
1. What change in belief about climate change will be acknowledged in a report from a United Nations study on global warming due to be released in February?
2. a) What is the IPCC?
b) What did London's Telegraph newspaper report about the IPCC report?
3. Why is the overall human effect on global warming since the industrial revolution less than had been thought, according to the IPCC's report?
4. a) Who is James Inhofe?
b) How does Mr. Inhofe view the theory of global warming?
5. Despite the report's findings, what is the U.N.'s view of human responsibility for global warming?
6. One leading U.K. climate scientist said: "The bottom line is that the climate is still warming while our greenhouse gas emissions have accelerated, so we are storing up problems for ourselves in the future."
Sen. Inhofe said: "With the continued scientific demise of man-made catastrophic global warming fears, the environmentalists, publicity- and grant-seeking scientists and many in the media may now have to find another dubious environmental doomsday cause to scare the public and policymakers."
With whom do you agree? Why?