Climate Clock Is Ticking

A new report by the World Wildlife Fund states that world leaders have just five years to act on climate change in order to "save the planet." Sufficient alternative energy resources exist to supply the world's energy needs, but achieving the switch in time to stave off the worst consequences of global warming requires action by 2012, the group said. A top U.S. climate scientists, James Hansen of NASA, has repeatedly said that the window of time available to act is about a decade, according to a Press Association May 15 story.