Free Republic

President George Bush is targeting the international treaty to save the ozone layer which protects all life on earth from deadly radiation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.New US demands - tabled at a little-noticed meeting in Montreal earlier this month - threaten to unravel one of the greatest environmental success stories of the past few decades, causing millions of deaths from cancer.The news comes at a particularly embarrassing time for the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, who pressed the President in their talks in Washington last week to stop his attempts to sabotage the Kyoto Protocol which sets out to...

Alarm over freak weather worldwide July 4, 2003 The world's weather is going haywire in 2003, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) warned this week in an astonishing announcement about global warming and extreme weather occurring around the globe. In a short but dramatic press release, the organisation, which normally produces detailed scientific reports and staid statistics at the year's end, highlighted record extremes in weather and climate occurring all over the world in the past few weeks, from the hottest-ever June in Switzerland to the record month for tornadoes in the United States - and linked them to climate...

<p>For Bacon and his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, 6 degrees or more is what scientists predict the average temperature on earth could increase in the next century.</p> <p>"There's nothing really good about global warming," says Bacon, the star of 1993's 6 Degrees of Separation who last week headlined the Earth Communications Office's Climate Star benefit to raise awareness about global warming. "It creates famine, drought and will increase disease. It's a weapon of mass destruction."</p>