Truthdig: Lord Nicholas Stern, the widely respected author of a landmark 2006 government-commissioned report on global warmings effect on the world economy, says he should have been more blunt about the dangers posed by rising temperatures.
In an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Stern said: "Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects...