Obama under pressure to show Doha he is serious on climate change

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The climate has been back on Obama's lips since his re-election, but the Doha conference will show if he is all talk

Barack Obama is being pressed for proof of his intent to act on climate change ahead of next week's United Nations global warming summit in Doha. The proof might boil down to just two words: two degrees....

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