Dr. ROBERT CORELL (Chairman, Arctic Climate Impact Assessment): Climate change is a real issue now.
When U.N. negotiator Hans Corell left Phnom Penh he had reason to be satisfied.
Establishing the court, U.N. chief negotiator Hans Corell said, would be a historic breakthrough.
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Dr. CORELL: Yes, we were in Svalbard, which is this island group that we used to call Spitzberg.
Dr. CORELL: When the sea ice melts, it doesn't change the sea level.
Dr. CORELL: Well, if we get a meter of sea level rise, I'll step off my front step into water.
Dr. CORELL: There is no question there is a major gas finds.
However you see it, Robert Corell says the change has already begun.
Dr. CORELL: Over this century, we're likely to see warming in parts of the Arctic that goes as much as 12 to 15 degrees warmer.
Dr. CORELL: Yes, the ice is melting much earlier in the year than in the past, and it's freezing up much later in the year.
Dr. CORELL: Yeah, well, there are certainly--over cocktails--conversations of that like.
"I made it clear that the U.N. would be unable to proceed if the law establishing the court, as passed by Cambodia's parliament, differs from the Memorandum of Understanding, " said Corell.
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