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consequences (however speculative) about global warming but not about
the consequences to their "solutions" for it.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush, seeking to rev up support for his
energy plan, praised domestic automakers Monday for building more
"flexible fuel" vehicles capable of running on ethanol and biodiesel
blends.
"That's a major technological breakthrough for the country," Bush
said. "If you want to reduce gasoline usage like I believe we need to
do so for national security reasons as well as for environmental
concerns, the consumer has got to be in a position to make a rational
choice."
Bush said he appreciated "that American automobile manufacturers
recognize the reality of the world in which we live in and are using
new technologies to use the consumers different options."
Bush met with General Motors Corp. chairman and chief executive Rick
Wagoner, Ford Motor Co. chief executive Alan Mulally and
DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group chief executive Tom LaSorda. They
discussed Bush's support for flex-fuel vehicles and his
administration's proposal to reduce gas consumption by 20 percent in
10 years.
The three auto executives reiterated their commitment to double their
production of flexible fuel vehicles to about 2 million a year by
2010.
Automakers said they could make half of their cars and trucks capable
of running on alternative fuels by 2012 if there is enough
availability and distribution of E85, an ethanol blend of 85 percent
ethanol and 15 percent gasoline.
"This makes a big difference," Wagoner said. "There's nothing that can
be done that can reduce the curb of growth of imported oil, and
actually turn it down, like using E85."
LaSorda said, "We think this is the answer for America to lower our
dependence on foreign oil."
Environmental groups said the focus on ethanol blends would undermine
attempts to push automakers to make more fuel efficient cars.
"Making our cars and light trucks go farther on a gallon of gas is the
single biggest step we can take toward saving American families money
at the pump, ending our dangerous addiction to oil, and curbing global
warming," said Dan Becker, the Sierra Club's director of the global
warming and energy program.
Only about 1,100 of the nation's 170,000 fueling stations offer E85.
The auto leaders said the distribution system is critical to getting
more vehicles running on alternatives.
Bush checked out some flex-fuel vehicles on the South Lawn following
the meeting: GM's flex-fuel Chevrolet Impala running on E85; Ford's
Edge HySeries with a plug-in hydrogen fuel cell; and DaimlerChrysler's
Jeep Grand Cherokee diesel filled with B5, a biodiesel blend.
During one of the demonstrations, Bush stuck a yellow plug into a jack
positioned near the front door of the Ford Edge. Mulally said a mix of
alternative vehicles -- hybrids, hydrogen fuel cells and plug-ins --
"give us some great options to satisfy our need for flexibility as
well as being good stewards of the environment."
Bush has sought higher fuel efficiency standards for cars; Wagoner
said they spent "very little time" talking about gas mileage standards
beyond the president's support for reforming the way standards are
applied for passenger cars.
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Warming May Create Climates, Cut Others
Some climates may disappear from Earth entirely, not just from their
current locations, while new climates could develop if the planet
continues to warm, a study says. Such changes would endanger some
plants and animals while providing new opportunities for others, said
John W. Williams, an assistant professor of geography at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Using global change forecasts prepared for the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change, researchers led by Williams used computer models to
estimate how climates in various parts of the world would be affected.
Their findings are being published in this week's online edition of
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The IPCC, representing the world's leading climate scientists,
reported in February that "warming of the climate system is
unequivocal, as is now evident from observation of increases in global
average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice
and rising global average sea level."
Tropical regions in particular may face unexpected changes,
particularly the rain forests in the Amazon and Indonesia, Williams'
researchers concluded.
This was surprising, Williams said in a telephone interview, since the
tropics tend to have little variation in weather.
But that also means temperature changes of 3 or 4 degrees in these
regions might have more impact than a change of 5 to 8 degrees in a
region that is accustomed to regular changes.
Species living in tropical areas may be less able to adapt, he said,
adding that that is speculative and needs further study.
Areas like the Southeastern United States and the Arabian Peninsula
may also be affected, the researchers said, adding that mountain areas
such as in Peruvian and Colombian Andes and regions such as Siberia
and southern Australia face a risk of climates disappearing
altogether.
That doesn't mean these regions would have no climate at all - rather
their climate would change and the conditions currently in these areas
would not occur elsewhere on Earth.
That would pose a risk to species living in those areas, Williams
observed.
If some regions develop new climates that don't now exist, that might
provide an opportunity for species that live there, Williams said.
"But we can't make a prediction because it's outside our current
experience and outside the experience of these species