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The United Nations' intergovernmental panel of scientists met in Bangkok to discuss global warming. Rather than doom and gloom they met to recommend what policies should be adopted to save the planet from greenhouse gas emissions. ABC's Bill Blakemore did not land a trip to Thailand but he did outline their proposals from the New York bureau. Green activist John Holdren of the Energy Policy Commission told Blakemore that the panel did not offer a "silver bullet" but a "silver shotgun," a scattershot of actions that, taken together, is supposed to kill off the threat from carbon dioxide. Blakemore went down the menu: carbon taxes; sequestrating of carbon from burned coal; subsidies for alternate electricity generation; higher automobile fuel efficiency; investment in mass transit; conservation in heating, cooling and lighting of buildings.
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