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(from The New York Times, 5/9/89, p. C4)
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BRITISH URGE RAPID ACTION [ON WARMING]
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By Paul Lewis
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Special to The New York Times
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UNITED NATIONS, May 8 -- Britain today called for the rapid
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drafting of a new international convention to deal with the
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problem of global warming, saying rising temperatures could lead
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to disruption of normal life, political tension and war.
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The British Government suggested in a statement to the United
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Nations that countries should agree as soon as possible on a
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convention that would set out broad "guidelines for good climatic
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behavior."
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More specific binding protocols dealing with the global warming
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problem could then be approved as scientific understanding
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advances and a consensus develops on what action is needed.
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Britain's position was outlined by its Permanent Representative
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at the United Nations, Sir Crispin Tickell, in a speech to the
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United Nations Economic and Social Council. He said his
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Government decided to press for rapid action on global warming
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after a daylong seminar organized on April 26 by Prime Minister
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Margaret Thatcher at her official residence and attended by
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ministers, scientists and industrialists.
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Sir Crispin said that even though great uncertainties still exist
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about global warming, the Downing Street meeting concluded that
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there was no time to waste in planning international action to
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cope with a problem of such scale and complexity which could
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disrupt "the intricate web of life on a scale now hard to
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imagine."
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At a news conference, Sir Crispin warned that rising world
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temperatures and climatic change threaten world peace because
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they could lead to disputes and wars over fresh water and arable
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land and create a whole new class of "environmental refugees"
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fleeing land that could no longer sustain them.
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