Source:
afpGrim climate change report prompts UN call for 'breakthrough'
by Marlowe Hood
56 minutes ago
VALENCIA, Spain (AFP) - The world's top scientific authority on climate change published on Saturday its starkest warning yet, declaring that the impact of global warming could be "abrupt or irreversible" and no country would be spared.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon seized on the report by the Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to demand that politicians next month smash the deadlock on tackling the greenhouse-gas peril.
The historic report "has set the stage for a real breakthrough," said Ban, referring to a key conference running on the Indonesian island of Bali from December 3-14.
"We cannot afford to leave Bali without such a breakthrough," he said, as he described climate change as the "defining challenge of our age."
Read more:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071117/sc_afp/unclimatewarmingipcc_071117140025
with the US kicking trillions into a bottomless pit in irag--i do not see the US doing much at all.