Time to stop arguing about climate change, World Bank says


  • World
  • Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim speaks at a Thomson Reuters Newsmaker event, at Canary Wharf in east London June 19, 2013. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

LONDON (Reuters) - The world should stop arguing about whether humans are causing climate change and start taking action to stop dangerous temperature rises, the president of the World Bank said on Wednesday.

Jim Yong Kim said there was 97 to 98 percent agreement among scientists that global warming was real and caused by human activity.

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