PHL, Germany ink agreement on $42.2-M climate change mitigation projects

The Federal Republic of Germany and the Philippines toughened their joint stance against climate change Monday with the signing of a $42.2-million implementation agreement on projects related to the weather phenomenon.

South: How we love global warming - UK

One thing that has become clear this year is that it doesn't matter how well you control disease, if you don't get any sun in June you don't get any yield. The coldest, wettest, dullest grainfill period in history, apparently. How we love global warming. And we've not had it too bad in the south; reports of harvest just getting started in the west country are not uncommon.

Lee arrives in Greenland to highlight problems of global warming | YONHAP NEWS

KANGERLUSSUAQ, Greenland, Sept. 9 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak arrived in Greenland on Sunday on a trip expected to highlight the importance of fighting climate change and promoting green growth...
...Lee will travel to Ilulissat, a UNESCO World Heritage site known for its famous ice fjord, to take a first-hand look at problems resulting from global warming there...
The prominent South Korean climber Um Hong-gil will accompany Lee on the trip to the site as a symbolic move to underscore the seriousness of climate change, along with famous cartoonist Hur Young-man and a college student chosen for his enthusiasm about green growth.

Why doesn't Lee visit the Chicago area to see first-hand the problems that have resulted since it lost its former mile-thick covering of ice?