U.N. Report Describes Risks of Inaction on Climate Change

This appears to be the top story today for the Times, and it's an important one for sure -- essentially capping off the IPCC's total findings. The set of IPCC reports is likely to form global policy for years to come. Understanding the weight of this set of reports is essential:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/science/earth/17climate.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1195313252-jLJbP3t5WQZzFDwOL2yIkw

As if the issue were not clearly urgent enough, note on page 2: "Likewise, a recent International Energy Agency report looking at the unexpectedly rapid emissions growth in China and India estimated that if current policies were not changed the world would warm six degrees by 2030, a disastrous increase far higher than the panel’s estimates of one to four degrees by the end of the century."