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Posted: 12/6/2011 5:30:47 AM EST
In this photo taken on Sunday, Dec 4, 2011, Bird watchers, left, sit waiting the arrival of barn swallows at a wetland area on the outskirts of Durban, South Africa. Wetlands - critical for the health of South Africa's coasts and river systems - already have been degraded or seriously altered by human activity, and experts fear global warming threatens them further. (AP Photo/Arthur Max)
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Posted: 12/6/2011 5:30:47 AM EST
In this photo taken on Sunday, Dec 4, 2011, bird watchers sit waiting for the arrival of barn swallows at a wetland area on the outskirts of Durban, South Africa. Wetlands _ critical for the health of South Africa's coasts and river systems _ already have been degraded or seriously altered by human activity, and experts fear global warming threatens them further. (AP Photo/Arthur Max)
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Posted: 12/6/2011 4:50:37 AM EST
Farmers plough to plant corn on a dried basin of the Red River in Hanoi December 6, 2011. Scientists say existing pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 are too weak to stem dangerous climate changes including more droughts, floods and rising seas. They say the existing pledges will fail to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, a commonly used safety threshold for dangerous change. REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY)
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Posted: 12/6/2011 4:49:38 AM EST
Farmers plough to plant corn on a dried basin of the Red River in Hanoi December 6, 2011. Scientists say existing pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 are too weak to stem dangerous climate changes including more droughts, floods and rising seas. They say the existing pledges will fail to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, a commonly used safety threshold for dangerous change. REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)
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Posted: 12/5/2011 1:15:49 PM EST
Greenpeace protesters attempt to abseil down a building with a banner before being arrested by South African Police in Durban, South Africa, Monday, Dec 5, 2011. As talks to shore up the international response to global warming entered their second and crucial week in the South African coastal city of Durban environmentalists led a tour of a wetlands area near Durban. Wetlands _ critical for the health of South Africa's coasts and river systems _ already have been degraded or seriously altered by human activity, and experts fear global warming threatens them further. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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Posted: 12/5/2011 1:15:49 PM EST
Activists wear masks depicting the face of the European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, left, and Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper, right, during a protest in Durban, South Africa, Monday, Dec. 5, 2011. As talks to shore up the international response to global warming entered their second and crucial week in the South African coastal city of Durban environmentalists led a tour of a wetlands area near Durban. Wetlands _ critical for the health of South Africa's coasts and river systems _ already have been degraded or seriously altered by human activity, and experts fear global warming threatens them further. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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Posted: 12/2/2011 1:15:48 PM EST
People walk with a coffin as they protest against the usage of coal during a climate change conference at the city of Durban, South Africa, Thursday, Dec 1, 2011. Leading American environmentalists complained to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that her negotiators at U.N. climate talks risked portraying the U.S. as an obstacle to fighting global warming because of its perceived foot-dragging on key issues. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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Posted: 12/2/2011 1:15:48 PM EST
Women dance and sing as they gather to have their voices heard by governments and policy makers during the climate change conference taking place in Durban, South Africa, Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011. The U.N.'s top climate scientist cautioned climate negotiators Wednesday global warming is leading to human dangers and soaring financial costs, but containing carbon emissions will have a host of benefits. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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Posted: 11/30/2011 8:10:46 AM EST
In this photo taken Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011, Wayne Arendse warms his hands on a wood fire used for cooking in a poor township near Cape Town, South Africa. In the east coastal city of Durban, a U.N. climate conference is being held with discussions on ways of saving the planet from global warming as well as discussing how to raise $100 billion a year to help poor countries move to low-carbon economies and cope with the effects of the warming. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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Posted: 11/24/2011 6:10:47 AM EST
In this photo taken on Sunday, Nov 20, 2011, a child looks over a day's catch of sardines at the Hout Bay Harbour near Cape Town South Africa. Numbers of penguins in the Cape of Good Hope are dropping as the bird depends on species like sardines to survive and to feed their chicks. Climate change could mean unthinkable loss for South Africa, which hosts talks on global warming that will bring government negotiators, scientists and lobbyists from around the world to the coastal city of Durban next week (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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Posted: 11/24/2011 6:10:47 AM EST
File: In this photo taken Tuesday, July 19, 2011, baboons alongside a road in the Kruger National Park. Climate change could mean an unthinkable loss of wild life in South Africa, which hosts talks on global warming that will bring government negotiators, scientists and lobbyists from around the world to the coastal city of Durban next week (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
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Posted: 11/24/2011 6:10:47 AM EST
File: In this photo taken Saturday September 14 1996 a donkey cart carries passengers throughone of the world's great spectacles, the surrounding Namaqualand countryside which blooms in teeming colours best described as a psychedlic fantasy. Climate change could mean an unthinkable loss of the flowers in South Africa, which hosts talks on global warming that will bring government negotiators, scientists and lobbyists from around the world to the coastal city of Durban next week (AP Photo/Sasa Kralj-File)
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Posted: 11/24/2011 6:10:47 AM EST
File: in this photo taken Wednesday, June 2, 2010 two African penguins bask in the sun at the South African Foundation for the conservation of Coastal Birds care center in Cape Town, South Africa. Because of climate change one could not imageine the Cape of Good Hope without penguins. Climate change could mean unthinkable loss for South Africa, which hosts talks on global warming that will bring government negotiators, scientists and lobbyists from around the world to the coastal city of Durban next week. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam-File)
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Posted: 11/24/2011 6:10:47 AM EST
File: In this photo taken Saturday September 14 1996 one of the world's great spectacles, the surrounding Namaqualand countryside blooms in teeming colours best described as a psychedlic fantasy. Climate change could mean an unthinkable loss of the flowers in South Africa, which hosts talks on global warming that will bring government negotiators, scientists and lobbyists from around the world to the coastal city of Durban next week (AP Photo/Sasa Kralj-File)
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Posted: 11/24/2011 6:10:46 AM EST
File: in this photo taken Thursday March 17, 2011 African penguins bask on the Boulders Beach, in Simonstown, South Africa. Because of climate change one could not imageine the Cape of Good Hope without penguins. Climate change could mean unthinkable loss for South Africa, which hosts talks on global warming that will bring government negotiators, scientists and lobbyists from around the world to the coastal city of Durban next week. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam-File)
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Posted: 11/24/2011 6:10:46 AM EST
File: In this photo taken Tuesday, July 19, 2011, elephant walk through the Kruger National Park feeding of trees. Climate change could mean an unthinkable loss of wild life in South Africa, which hosts talks on global warming that will bring government negotiators, scientists and lobbyists from around the world to the coastal city of Durban next week (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
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Posted: 11/1/2011 3:45:54 PM EST
FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2005, file photo, The Louisiana Superdome is shown in this aerial view, which was damaged by Hurricane Katrina, surrounded by floodwaters, in New Orleans. Freakish weather, from this weekends October snowstorm to the long-lasting drought in the US Southwest, is striking more often. And global warming should make future weather even weirder, a special international report says. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
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Posted: 11/1/2011 3:45:54 PM EST
FILE - In this July 29, 2010 file photo, Moscow's St. Bazil's cathedral , background, is slightly seen through a smog covering Moscow. Freakish weather, from this weekends October snowstorm to the long-lasting drought in the US Southwest, is striking more often. And global warming should make future weather even weirder, a special international report says. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File)
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Posted: 11/1/2011 3:45:54 PM EST
FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2011 file photo, Thai residents carry their belongings along floods as they move to higher ground at Bangkok's Don Muang district, Thailand. Freakish weather, from this weekends October snowstorm to the long-lasting drought in the US Southwest, is striking more often. And global warming should make future weather even weirder, a special international report says. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)
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Posted: 11/1/2011 3:45:54 PM EST
FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2011 file photo, a buoy sits high and dry at Benbrook Lake in Benbrook, Texas. Freakish weather, from this weekends October snowstorm to the long-lasting drought in the US Southwest, is striking more often. And global warming should make future weather even weirder, a special international report says. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
