Climate Central: Peering closely at the climate talks underway in Paris could be a formula for depression.
Entrenched divisions persist between richer and poorer countries on key negotiating issues. Pledges to tackle climate pollution that were submitted by nations before the talks began a week ago were underwhelming, and they would collectively allow global warming to blow well past the dangerous benchmark of 2°C (3.6°F).
These are serious problems, threatening to bake the planet -- and the human beings and...