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Science 18 May 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5520, pp. 1275 - 1277
DOI: 10.1126/science.292.5520.1275b
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
17 National Academies Endorse Kyoto

Jocelyn Kaiser

In an editorial in this week's issue of Science, 17 national academies of science affirm the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's conclusion that human activities are warming the planet, urging those with "doubts"--by implication, the United States--to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, which would impose binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions by industrialized countries (see p. 1261). Robert May, president of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom, which organized the statement, says it was partly provoked by Bush's recent rejection of the Kyoto treaty, along with resistance to the Kyoto terms from countries such as Australia.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)