In other environmental news, Greenpeace is calling for a higher reduction of carbon dioxide emissions than mandated under the Kyoto Protocol. On Tuesday, Greenpeace released a report calling for a reduction of nearly 50 percent over the next half-century. Greenpeace climate and energy policy adviser Steve Sawyer warned of drastic consequences if the world’s temperature rises by even a few degrees.

Steve Sawyer: “My country, where I live in, Holland, will effectively disappear. The World Trade Center memorial will be underwater, and the coast lines of the continents as we know them will have completely changed beyond all recognition, and we’ll be looking at hundreds of hundreds of millions of people with no place to live.”

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is planning to release a report Friday saying there is at least a 90 percent chance human activities are the main cause of climate change. The same scientists listed a 66 percent probability six years ago.