How significant is their contribution to global warming?
AS: It is a tremendous help to have the State Attorney of California asking for the same types of regulations that we want. Jerry Brown heard about our petition and approached us about teaming up for the press conference. There is no question we think our petition has more of a chance of being taken seriously by the federal government now that the State Attorney General of California is asking for the same thing. We are delighted to be working with him. In our report, we cited statistics from independent university-based scientists that suggested that the emissions from the global shipping fleets were roughly equivalent to the emissions from Canada, putting it around sixth or seventh in the world. The day after that report came out, the Times of London had an article that said there was a yet-unpublished report by the shipping industry that puts the emissions at the levels we were talking about were underestimated and that they were more like fifth, around the level of Japan. The emiss
