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The mayors' climate summit: Who's counting the carbon?
So, just what is the carbon footprint of a climate summit? I refer, of course, to the U.S. Conference of Mayors gathering in Seattle this past week. Over 120 city leaders from around the country came here (mostly by plane) to discuss global warming. As far as I know, no one calculated how many greenhouse gases the event produced as they gassed about how many greenhouse gases they want reduced. There was a commendable effort, though, to keep the gases to a minimum. Perhaps the most obvious was using bio-diesel buses to transport delegates between locations. (Can you imagine a climate conference not using such things?)
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