There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.

The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally - and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes?

Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds of millions of people could suffer hunger, water shortages and coastal flooding as the world warms.

Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades

Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change

To claim the World Bank is just an extension of US foreign policy is just wrong.

Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.