Good News on Global WarmingIt
can't be stopped.
Even if people stopped pumping out carbon dioxide and other pollutants tomorrow, global warming would still get worse, two teams of researchers reported on Thursday.Well, then, no sense in stopping, right? Of course, there are the usual doom and gloom predictions, without which no environmental report would be worth covering:
Sea levels will rise more than they have already risen, worsening the damage caused by extreme high tides and storm surges, and droughts, heat waves and storms will become more severe, the climate experts predicted.First point here: There are no sea "levels". There is one sea level, which is sort of the reason for using it as a reference. And of course, they have not "already risen", as folks in Florida can attest. Most of the state is not more than a few feet above sea level.
More wonderful nonsense, spoken as fact:
Virtually no one disagrees human activity is fueling global warming, and a global treaty signed in Kyoto, Japan, aims to reduce polluting emissions. But the world's biggest polluter, the United States, has withdrawn from the 1997 treaty, saying its provisions would hurt the U.S. economy.What's with this "virtually nobody" bit? Did Reuters take a poll? Or is that non-subtle editorializing, like the rest of the paragraph?
