Scientific American: At the UN climate talks in Poland, Yeb Sano, the head of the Philippines delegation has announced he will refrain from eating until participants make "meaningful" progress. In his address, Sano linked the terrible devastation in the Philippines after Supertyphoon Haiyan to climate change.
"What my country is going through as a result of this extreme climate event is madness, the climate crisis is madness. We can stop this madness right here in Warsaw."
The images trickling back from the Philippines...