Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Extreme weather is new normal, U.N.'s Ban tells climate talks

Reuters: Extreme weather is the new normal and poses a threat to the human race, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday, as he sought to revive deadlocked global climate change talks. Ban's intervention came as efforts to agree a symbolic extension of the U.N. Kyoto Protocol, a treaty that obliges about 35 developed nations to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, looked to be faltering. In a speech to almost 200 nations meeting in Doha to try to get a breakthrough, Ban said a thaw in Arctic...

URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/04/climate-talks-idUSL5E8N47AP20121204

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