| by SETH BORENSTEIN

YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — If the world doesn't cut pollution of
heat-trapping gases, the already noticeable harms of global warming
could spiral "out of control," the head of a United Nations scientific
panel warned Monday.
And he's not alone. The Obama White House says i

JAKARTA, Feb 16 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Indonesians on Sunday that man-made climate change could threaten their entire way of life, deriding those who doubted the existence of "perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction".

How far off are the effects of climate change?
Not far at all, says a new federal report that warns American lives
are already being changed, and their behavior could make the problem
worse.

It’s official: 2012 was the warmest year on record in the lower 48
states, as the country experienced blistering spring and summer heat,
tinderbox fire weather conditions amid a widespread drought, and one of
the worst storms to ever strike the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
According to the Nati