Global Warming or Climate Change

Justin Worland   @justinworland   Nov. 29, 2015         Alessandro Bianchi—Reuters A migrant touches a globe shaped balloon during a rally held ahead of the start of the 2015 Paris World Climate Change Conference in Rome on Nov. 29, 2015. Over 40,000 people are meeting in Paris for a historic conference on climate change MORE About 100 People Detained After Paris Climate Protest Turns Violent U.N.’s Ban Ki-moon Wants Climate Target Review by 2020 Worldwide Support for an Ambitious Climate-Change Deal Is Faltering, New Poll Says More than 100 heads of government and 40,000 other attendees are meeting on Nov. 30 for the launch of the two-week United Nations conference on climate change. Negotiators expect the gathering, formally known as the 21st Conference of Parties (COP 21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to yield the most significant international agreement yet to reduce global greenhouse gas ...

点击查看本文中文版   Read in Chinese By  CHRIS BUCKLEY NOV. 29, 2015 Photo Changing rainfall patterns will eventually mean that the Three Gorges Dam in China, one of the world’s largest, endures more frequent shortfalls in dry seasons and more intense floods in wet seasons, a report says. Credit Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Continue reading the main story Share This Page Email Share Tweet Save More BEIJING — Rising seas besieging  China ’s economically vital coastal zones. Mighty feats of infrastructure, like the Three Gorges Dam and railway in Tibet , strained by turbulent rainfall and the melting of frozen earth. And on the Himalayan frontiers, the risk in future decades of international conflict over dwindling water supplies as glaciers retreat. These and other somber scenarios are laid out in the Chinese government’s latest scientific assessment of  global warming , released just before negotiations in Paris for a new inter...