Climate change: Time is running out

Climate change is real, it is here and it threatens all of us. That is the inconvenient truth (to borrow the title from the award-winning 2006 documentary featuring the environmental crusader Al Gore) confronting 125 world leaders, including President Benigno Aquino 3rd, attending the UN Climate Change summit in New York today.

There is a grim urgency to drawing a global blueprint for climate change. Unless the international community acts now, the damage from rising temperatures, warming oceans and melting icecaps will become irreversible.