InsideClimate: At a news conference in Lima where scientists showed that 2014 is likely to be the hottest year ever, the United Nations' top climate official said out loud what has been on everybody's minds as treaty negotiations creep forward.
It is "very clear" that countries' pledges on carbon emissions won't be ambitious enough to tip the world into a rapid reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, said Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change....