An iceberg in Ilulissat fjord in Greenland, August 16, 2007. Industrial nations agreed to consider stiff 2020 goals for cutting greenhouse gases on Friday in a small step towards a new climate pact to replace the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol. (Michael Kappeler/Pool/Reuters)
A man puts his baby on top of his car as he and a woman abandon their car after it started to float when Hurricane Katrina hit the Treme area of New Orleans August 29, 2005. Hurricane Katrina might have caused less damage if the Bush administration had completed a required report of U.S. vulnerability to global warming before the storm hit, an environmental policy analyst said on Wednesday. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)