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And to be clear, this isnt just about the future — right now, the world is over 1.1 degrees warmer than pre—industrial levels, and thats already impacting our weather with more heatwaves, more droughts, more floods. and at this weeks climate conference in egypt, the un secretary general, put it this way. the 1.5—degree goal is on life support and the machines are rattling. we are getting dangerously close to the point of no return. these are difficult messages to hear, but thats not to say...

BEIJING, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- China national observatory on Saturday renewed a yellow alert for drought, as multiple regions continue to suffer a lack of rainfal

Enough to stop climate catastrophes like those floods, droughts and hurricanes i spoke about. so they need funding to get over those systems, to try to get their lives back together. this really is a critical decade to solve the problem of climate change, whether they can do this in the next two weeks remains to be seen, but there will be very heated discussions i think, christine. >> david mckenzie in egypt. thank you for that. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is warning of more russia...

Earlier, vice president al gore gave a impassioned speech, said there was a trust deficit between the global population and the leaders who are trying to make this happen. >> we have a credibility problem. all of us. were talking. and were starting to act. but were not doing enough. it is a choice to continue this pattern of destructive behavior. we have other choices. >> reporter: one of the biggest areas of contention, i think, kate, is the discussion between developing countries and countries...

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Countries most vulnerable to the impact, its almost completely the opposite. the 50% poorest people in the world have produced 7% of the heat trapping gas emissions causing climate to change. yet when you look at a list of which countries are most exposed to the stronger storms, the more intense droughts, the stronger heatwaves and floods happening as a result of climate change, at the top of that list are moza mozambique, bangladesh, pakistan. not countries like the united states, canada, the u...

This problem and we look at the countries most vulnerable to the impact, its almost completely the opposite. the 50% poorest people in the world have produced 7% of the heat trapping gas emissions causing climate to change. yet when you look at a list of which countries are most exposed to the stronger storms, the more intense droughts, the stronger heatwaves and floods happening as a result of climate change, at the top of that list are countries like mozambique, bangladesh, pakistan. not count...

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Commerce going through. ultimately, what saved the day was rain. >> and these days when you wish for rain, you have to specify not all at once. the midwest is still recovering from summer flash floods and if the water cycle whiplashes again, hard rain on parched earth would be another blow to farmers already struggling to move their harvest. fewer and lighter barges means more expensive trains and trucks putting more planet cooking pollution into earths system, which scientists continue to warn ...

Vessels of trade that are stuck in these record low numbers, you know, the mississippi is built by runoff of many different states and there just isnt enough rain to fill up this river. they channeled it decades ago, the army corps of engineer, their mission is to keep a shipping channel that is 300 feet wide, nine feet deep, harder and harder to do, kate. as a result the price of shipping just a barrel of soybeans has gone up 300% since the summer. one more inflationary pressure in the age of a...