U.S. Report Offers Steps to Fight Global Warming. Here’s hoping they can agree on some way of implementing the Kyoto Protocol in the Hague talks. “The United States came under fire on

Thursday from the European Union and

environmentalists over its wish to use the world’s forests to soak

up greenhouse gases rather than cut emissions at home. And, in related news, “climate researchers are warning of a possible

link between global warming and giant waves in

the Atlantic Ocean.

They say that if the current trend towards

warmer temperatures continues, roughening

seas could threaten coastal areas in northern

Europe.

Average winter wave heights in the north-east

Atlantic have increased by about a metre

(3.28 feet) over the past 30 years. Stormy

conditions also persist longer.”

At tough 180-nation talks in The Hague on how to slow global

warming, the EU rejected a U.S. proposal to use its own forests

and farmland as ‘sinks’ to soak up greenhouse gases, dismissing

the plan as a ‘free gift’ to the world’s largest polluter.”