Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: report describes the effects of global warming in unprecedented detail - je 17.11.2007 10

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has issued an urgent appeal for global action to combat climate change. In a newspaper commentary, Ban said he believes the world is, quote, "on the verge of a catastrophe if we do not act". His statement refers to the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that was presented just a short while ago in the Spanish city of Valencia. The report describes the effects of global warming in unprecedented detail.