Modest expectations marked the start of UN climate talks Monday, as negotiators and experts all warned that the two-week session would only lay the groundwork for a potentially ambitious global-warming pact by the end of the decade.
At the start of the climate summit, a dozen icebergs, freshly plucked from Greenland, were deposited in a circle at the Place du Pantheon.
At the start of the climate change conference (COP21) here in Paris, Canada's new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, had a message that was both a call to action and a political jab.
Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.WITH unerring irony, this week the British weather delivered an early and spectacular cold blast to mark the start of the climate-change talks in Cancún, Mexico.
We're starting to go through that sort of climate right now".
This research has prompted scientists to start developing techniques of climate modification that may have the ability to counteract the effects of a warming planet.
Countries most vulnerable to climate change have seized the political initiative at the start of the UN climate talks in Paris by challenging the US, China and Europe to raise their ambitions and set a long-term temperature goal of 1.5C rather than the 2C target.
In fact, as Tom himself has pointed out on his Grist blog, Chuck Norris, former martial arts movie star and darling of the looney teabaggers, has already started using discussion of climate funds as a foil for his paranoid populism.
The launch coincided with the start of the COP22 climate conference in the city.
