Associated PressThe chief goal in a White House plan to study global warming is learning more about natural causes of climate change, drawing criticism from environmentalists who say reducing industrial carbon emissions is the real problem.
The new 10-year plan and $130 million proposal to speed up research in some high-priority areas was being released Thursday by Commerce Secretary Don Evans and Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham. ---
Philip Clapp, president of National Environmental Trust, predicted that "most climate scientists around the world will see this as fiddling while Rome burns. … This would have been a great research program if it had been announced by the first President Bush 10 years ago." ---
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