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Anne Thompson filed from Copenhagen for NBC on the United Nations' global warming conference for the third time this week. Monday she covered the opening ceremonies; Wednesday she watched the EPA take the lead role in US diplomacy. Now she tells us about money: nations in the developing world want a $100bn fund for them to buy new technologies for carbonfree energy; rich nations are offering just $10bn.
NBC also completed its five-part series A Perfect Storm on the impact of global warming. Jim Maceda took the military angle as the Pentagon plans for regional warfare caused by changes in the climate. Conflicts sparked by refugee crises and depleted resources. Maceda used the Nile Delta on Egypt's Mediterranean coast as an example of a potential flashpoint. Rising sea levels ruin farmland by turning it salty; high temperatures and evaporation deplete the river; Sudan and Ethiopia, the neighbors upstream, divert its flow. "Egypt calls it a cause for war."
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