Ecologists raise alarm ahead of UN climate summit (AFP)

WARSAW (AFP) - Ecologists raised the alarm Monday over global warming as environment ministers from more than 30 states met in Warsaw ahead of December's UN Climate summit focused on slashing greenhouse gases. "We're ringing alarm bells -- the UN summit in Poznan must deliver a deal that will keep global warming below two degrees Celsius to the end of this century," Kaisa Kosonen from the global environmental group Greenpeace told reporters. "Five years from now will be too late," she said as activists rang bells outside of the Warsaw hotel where ministers were gathered. "We are currently on a pathway that implies temperatures could increase up to seven degrees (by the end of the century)," Kosonen said at an earlier press conference. "There is no more time for small steps." Greenpeace and the Global Climate Initiative want... [read full story]