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20 Sep 2002
Pressure is mounting on President Bush to take effective action on climate change after a new report, led by space agency NASA, warned that failure to take action could be catastrophic. This report comes a few days after the US Environmental Protection Agency dropped any mention of climate change from its annual air pollution report for the first time in six years.
The report by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, part of NASA, says that “results suggest that observed global temperature change in the past 50 years is primarily a response to radiative forcings. It also inferred that the planet is now out of radiation balance…”. The report also says that even if no more gases are released into the atmosphere “additional global warming of 0.5°C is already ‘in the pipeline’”
Kate Hampton, Climate Co-ordinator for Friends of the Earth International said:
“US scientists are reaffirming what most people already know. Climate change is a reality, and if the world does not take effective action to tackle it we face catastrophe. President Bush cannot go on ignoring the problem. The US is the world’s biggest polluter. Bush must stop listening to corporations like Exxon, and join the rest of the world in signing the Kyoto Protocol, the only international agreement to combat climate change.”
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