J. concerned, however, about the deteriorating situation of the environment in Cambodia, especially the over-logging in recent years that causes rapid rainwater run-off and soil erosion and which, according to a recent report of the Asian Development Bank, could deforest the country within five years,

A. whereas climate change is manifestly one of the most alarming challenges facing the world at the dawn of the 21 century; whereas a recent report by the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (a joint project of the United States' Environmental Panel and the World Meteorological Organisation) indicated that the earth's temperature would increase by between 1.4 and 5.8ºC over this century unless action is taken to tackle this phenomenon, which is mostly due to human activity; whereas the same report stressed the catastrophic consequences of such a phenomenon, with a growing probability of typhoons and cyclones, while ice and snow ...[+++] cover is dramatically decreasing and sea levels rising; whereas the situation is already appalling in some regions of the world, due to global warming; whereas, in this context, it has now become of the utmost importance to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which are a major cause of global warming,

For instance, pilots said that AWOS could not detect the approach of tornadoes, as humans can, could not differentiate between rain or snow or dust or hail, and reported " clear below 10,000" when, in fact, on-site weather was cloudy.