POWER WINDOW: CARBON LOADED

摘要

It's been respectable, if not entirely fashionable, to dismiss the possibility of global warming, or at least the potential that it was being caused by carbon dioxide generated by burning fossil fuels. That seems no longer to be the case. Over the past year, oil companies, utilities, and the Bush administration have come around to the idea that global warming is real. And a consortium of U.S. companies—including PG&E, Duke Energy, and Alcoa—has reportedly asked for congressional action to control carbon emissions.