News summarizing Londons environmental quest (complete article at
http://www.emagazine.com/view/?2472 ) compared to other countries. Any
comments?


Climate for Change
England Gets Serious About Global Warming
by Jim Motavalli

According to the prestigious journal Nature, 2004 was the fourth-warmest
year on record. And January 2005 was the second-warmest January of the past
27 years, says the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama.

Despite evidence like this, climate change has yet to make it onto the radar
screens of most Americans. The opposite is true in England, where the
science is hotly debated. In the Daily Express newspaper, for instance,
David Bellamy, a much-beloved figure in Britain for his TV shows about
plants and other natural phenomena, recently weighed in with a treatise. He
claimed that global warming is a lot of hot air, but even if it was true the
increase in carbon dioxide would simply be good for plant growth. Bellamy
had apparently missed a 2002 article in the respected journal Science, which
concluded that elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) actually reduces
[emphasis added] plant growth when combined with other likely consequences
of climate changenamely, higher temperatures, increased precipitation or
increased nitrogen deposits in the soil.





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