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“An international panel of scientists presented the United Nations with a sweeping, detailed plan on Tuesday to combat climate change — a challenge, it said, ‘to which civilization must rise.’ Failure would produce a turbulent 21st century of weather extremes, spreading drought and disease, expanding oceans, and displaced coastal populations, it said. After a two-year study, the 18-member group, representing 11 nations, offered scores of recommendations: from pouring billions more dollars into research and development of cleaner energy sources, to mobilizing U.N. and other agencies to help affected people, to winning political agreement on a global temperature ‘ceiling.’” (02/28/07)