Climate Change

It's like the publishing version of one of those scenes from a sci-fi [movie:comic] where an alien invasion impels traditional adversaries to join together to face their larger, common threat. Today 56 newspapers, in Pakistan and India, in Israel and Lebanon, in Tawian and China, in Greece and Turkey, in Africa and in North, South and Central America are [publishing:producing] an unprecedented joint editorial calling for meaningful action to face the threat posed by [climate:weather] change. The editorial, published in 45 countries in 20 different languages, appears on this first day of the Copenhagen climate conference. The British paper the Guardian led the effort, which [involved:engeged] weeks of negotiations to reach a final version.The editorial notes that "the science is complex but the facts are clear. The [world:earth] needs to take steps to limit temperature rises to 2 degrees. A bigger rise of 3 to 4 degrees C would parch continents, turning farmland into desert.