http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/061105/w110544.html
This article is called "Thousands gather in Kenya to weigh next steps on global climate change," and it was written by Charles J Hanley for CBC.ca, and published on November 5th, 2006.
The article reports on the opening of the UN conference on climate change, which took place in Kenya. According to the article, the continent that has contributed the least to climate change, Africa, is also the one which will be most devastated by its effects. Scientists predict a grim outlook for Africa, and it does not seem fair that this continent, having had little to do with the problem, is going to be hit with the brunt of its consequences. The article then goes on to revisit the Kyoto accord, which the US, who contribute one-fifth of the world's carbon emissions, refused to sign in 2001. Now, five years later, the countries who did sign Kyoto are waiting to see if the US "will submit to a mandatory regime of cutbacks."
This article's bias seems to side with Kyoto and sit quite directly across from the U.S. government, with little faith in it: "few here expect any dramatic shift in the U.S. position." The reason of this bias is simply that with the U.S. government's track record on this issue it's a hard bias for a thinking human being not to have.
This article is called "Thousands gather in Kenya to weigh next steps on global climate change," and it was written by Charles J Hanley for CBC.ca, and published on November 5th, 2006.
The article reports on the opening of the UN conference on climate change, which took place in Kenya. According to the article, the continent that has contributed the least to climate change, Africa, is also the one which will be most devastated by its effects. Scientists predict a grim outlook for Africa, and it does not seem fair that this continent, having had little to do with the problem, is going to be hit with the brunt of its consequences. The article then goes on to revisit the Kyoto accord, which the US, who contribute one-fifth of the world's carbon emissions, refused to sign in 2001. Now, five years later, the countries who did sign Kyoto are waiting to see if the US "will submit to a mandatory regime of cutbacks."
This article's bias seems to side with Kyoto and sit quite directly across from the U.S. government, with little faith in it: "few here expect any dramatic shift in the U.S. position." The reason of this bias is simply that with the U.S. government's track record on this issue it's a hard bias for a thinking human being not to have.
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