The annual global climate change conference kicked off in Scotland this week with the hurricane-prone Caribbean making a spirited plea for sustained financing to deal with that phenomenon as leaders tried to get the world, western polluters in particular, to agree to keep temperature rises to a minimum or face the prospects of unbearable living conditions.
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