As climate change is happening, we know that the frequency of these disasters will increase as well as the scope.

We're not going to negotiate some new treaty on climate change ... What this is about is seeing whether it will be possible in the future to bring people back into consensus together. Can we do that? I don't know, but it's important that we at least begin a process of dialogue that allows us to make progress on this.

You couldn't necessarily say, 'That hurricane, that storm, that flood only happened because of climate change,' (but) you're starting to see a pattern of extreme weather events.

Bush agreed in Gleneagles that climate change was urgent.

Climate change is, in my view, long term, the single biggest issue that we face,

That's a serious wedge, and shows a political climate change,