BRUSSELS: In a sign of shifting politics over global warming, leading scientists said Friday that China was among a group of nations that had sought to water down a major report on climate change, while they credited the United States, long a skeptic about climate change, with sometimes playing a helpful role.
Capping four days of debate between scientists and representatives from more than 100 governments, Martin Parry, co-chairman of the team from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said the effects of climate change were widespread and measurable, with much more to come.
"We're no longer arm-waving with models," said Parry. "This is empirical information on the ground." He added that the areas most affected were likely to be the Arctic, sub-Saharan Africa, and small islands and Asia's sprawling, crowded, flood-prone river deltas. |