Guardian: The chairman of the United Nations' climate panel has warned the world to act on global warming to avoid passing "on a lousy, spoilt and defiled planet" to future generations.
Rajendra K Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), spoke out as typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Phillipines causing hundreds of deaths and widespread destruction.
While Pachauri said it was not possible to blame any single disaster on the steep rise in carbon emissions, the increased...