Chairman of United Nation’s (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Rajendra Pachauri said that there is mounting evidence that humans are causing global warming but Governments are doing too little to counter the threat. More forthcoming than the 2001 report, this year’s conclusion is that the “scientific evidence” is “compelling” that gasses released by burning fossil fuels in power plants, factories, and cars were warming the planet. Global warming may cause increased catastrophic climate changes such as heat waves, droughts, floods, and rising sea levels. However, Pachauri would not go far enough to say that it was Greenhouse emissions that were causing global warming saying that “it was premature” and that the report is “nowhere near completion.” The UN Kyoto Protocol required developed nations to cut down their emissions; however, this treaty has been significantly weakened by the US pulling out of the accord. Rising sea levels caused by the meltdown of the Arctic and Antarctic snowcaps will endanger low-lying areas such as Maldives, Bangladesh, and Tuvalu in the Pacific Ocean. Pachauri also warned that coastal cities “from New York to Shanghai and Buenos Aires to London” might be inundated by rising sea levels. Interestingly, the cost of curbing Greenhouse gasses may delay projected 2050 global development by only a couple of years. This conclusion is significant as the 2001 study projected costs as being much higher.