World climate experts have issued their bleakest forecasts yet on the effects of climate change, predicting that it will inflict damage on every continent but hit the world's poor disproportionately hard. In a 1,400-page report, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that almost a third of the world's species could be wiped out by global warming. The report's accompanying summary was agreed this morning after experts and officials wrapped up a week of talks in Brussels with a marathon 24-hour negotiating session. Delegates said that the United States, China and Saudi Arabia provoked charges of political interference...
