Rhyme and reason of climate change

THE UNITED NATIONS' CLIMATE TALKS are still going on in New York City but the stories out of the conference are being buried by U.S. media -- even after the Sunday march that drew over 400,000 people from all over the world to the city's streets.

Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and her daughter.

On Tuesday, Marshall Islands' Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner performed her poem in front of the 126 leaders assembled in New York. Her powerful poem was addressed to her 7-month-old daughter who makes an appearance at the end.

The Pacific islands will be among the first countries to be affected by our melting polar ice caps, some islands will disappear entirely. 

Climate change is blamed for the extreme weather events like Typhoon Haiyan that decimated  the central Philippines, the drought affecting the entire western United States, northern Africa, polar vortexes and a rash of more intense hurricanes.

President Obama spoke before the assembly and outlined the U.S. plan to reduce global warming. His main problem are those political leaders who will listen to one scientist who pooh-poohs the climate change theory and ignores the other 99% of scientists who attest to mankind's role in global warming.

Words can be powerful. Some in the audience were said to be moved to tears. Listen up.

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