Saturday 24 September 2011

Island nations warn of climate disaster at UN (AP)

This July 17, 2011 photo, drops of water fall off the melting front of a glacier near the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, outside Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. Climate scientists overwhelmingly agree that manmade greenhouse gases are warming the planet toward dangerous levels, and yet resistance to the idea appears to have hardened among many Americans. Why? 'The desire to disbelieve deepens as the scale of the threat grows,' concludes one scholar who has studied the phenomenon. Analysts now see climate as another battleground in America's left-right 'culture wars.' (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - The Palestinians want the United Nations to recognize a state. And the island nation of Tuvalu wants the United Nations to act — now — to keep their state above water.



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