The head of the United Nations scientific climate panel spoke with U.S. lawmakers Wednesday, encouraging them lead the world in cooling the overheated planet. “We really don’t have a moment to lose,” said Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.
It is essential for the U.S. to take action,” said Pachauri, who also spoke at a public briefing Wednesday afternoon convened by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
But it is unclear how serious U.S. lawmakers are about tackling global warming - only five of the nine Democrats on the panel attended the hearing and none of the committee’s six Republicans were present.
