Climate Change Report: Global Warming Can Be Limited But Change Needs To Happen Soon

The deleterious effects of climate change have been felt around the world, and extreme weather events will only get worse without a serious dose of behavior modification, the United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded in its latest status report released Sunday in Copenhagen, Denmark. The IPCC said new energy policies must be implemented before 2030. And it said these policies should encompass a change to low-carbon from high-carbon fuel sources by 2050 and the pha...