November 28, 2000 NEWS ANALYSIS Odd Culprits in Collapse of Climate Talks By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Through a decade of scientific and political debate over global warming, private environmental groups were a driving force for a treaty committing industrial countries to fight the problem. The opponent always was industry, particularly oil and coal companies threatened by anything that might bring about an early end to the carbon age.
full article http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/28/science/28CLIM.html
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