A March 18 report on al-Jazeera noted a cruel irony to OPEC’s just-ended conference in Isfahan, where the oil ministers of the 11 member nations agreed to boost production in a bid to bring down global prices. No sooner did… Read moreHyper-priapic OPEC can’t get it down
Here’s what’s really sad: the Kyoto treaty on global climate change which takes effect this week–minus the US, the world’s major producer of greenhouse gases by far–doesn’t even significantly address the problem, activists charge. In fact, some measures are downright… Read moreKyoto: What’s to celebrate?
Ecologists protested at the US embassy in London Feb. 12 over President Bush’s refusal to join the Kyoto agreement to cut greenhouse gases and tackle climate change. The long-stalled treaty goes into effect this week, committing 136 countries to reduce… Read moreKyoto takes effect —without world’s biggest polluter
