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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio addresses the Climate Change Summit at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

FEIN: The fantasy of international greenhouse limits

By Bruce Fein

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the Climate Summit at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) **FILE**

At U.N., Obama calls out China, India on carbon emissions

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio addresses the Climate Change Summit, at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

NYC mayor warns UN about climate change

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Demonstrators stage a sit-in Monday on Broadway during a march protesting for action on climate change. (Associated Press)

Skeptics heated over climate conference

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Arizona Diamondbacks fan Roberta Alvarez, of Casa Grande, Ariz., participates a zombie walk on Zombie Night at Chase Field prior to a baseball game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Diamondbacks on Friday, April 25, 2014, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) ** FILE **

Want to help the United Nations fight off a zombie apocalypse? There’s an app for that

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

People fill the street during the People's Climate March, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014, in New York. Tens of thousands of activists walked through Manhattan on Sunday, warning that climate change is destroying the Earth &#8212; in stride with demonstrators around the world who urged policymakers to take quick action. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

400K rally for climate change in New York City streets

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

President Obama will be the eco-president when he addresses the U.N. climate summit, but he will reprise his commander role 24 hours later when he gives an address before the U.N. Security Council. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: Obama shifts from war hawk to green guy

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

FILE - In this undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State group, march in Raqqa, Syria. The Islamic State group will likely take center stage when more than 140 heads of state of government convene for the U.N. General Assembly the week of Sept. 22. (AP Photo/File)

UN to bind nations on new foreign terrorist rules

By KEN DILANIAN - Associated Press

In this Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009, file photo, a flock of geese fly past a smokestack at the Jeffery Energy Center coal power plant near Emmitt, Kan. Hundreds of corporations, insurance companies and pension funds are calling on world leaders gathering for a U.N. summit on climate change this week to attack the problem by making it more costly for businesses to pollute. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File) ** FILE **

Businesses and investors pressing for green policy

By JONATHAN FAHEY - Associated Press

Riot police use teargas to disperse Kurdish demonstrators who were clashing with Turkish security forces as thousands of Syrian refugees continue to arrive at the border in Suruc, Turkey, Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. Turkey opened its border Saturday to allow in up to 60,000 people who massed on the Turkey-Syria border, fleeing the Islamic militants&#8217; advance on Kobani.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

White House: Some Islamic State fighters have returned to U.S.

By Dave Boyer and Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Elliot Crown of New York parades in a costume called "Fossil Fool." The goal of signing a climate deal could better be facilitated more by strategic negotiations rather than distracting protest marches. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: The spectacle of global warming

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Smokes rises from an area due to clashes between Sunni militiamen and Hawthi Shiite rebels in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014. Yemen's top security body imposed an overnight curfew in restive areas of the capital, Sanaa, on Saturday after Shiite rebels took over the state television building amid heavy clashes and the U.N. envoy to the country signaled that a deal had been reached to end the violence. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Yemen government signs peace deal with Shiites

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Smokes rises from near the Yemeni Government TV building, background, during clashes between Sunni militiamen and Hawthi Shiite rebels in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014. The Hawthi fighters and militias and army units allied with the Muslim Brotherhood's Islah party battled in Sanaa for a third day Saturday in clashes that have shaken the Yemeni capital, killed over 120 people, and led to thousands fleeing their homes. The violence raises fears that this chronically unstable country could be dragged into the sort of sectarian conflicts that have plagued other nations in the region. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Yemen sets curfew as fighting with Shiite rebels roils capital

By Ahmed Al-Haj - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2014 file photo, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon participates in a news conference, at United Nations headquarters. More than 120 world leaders convene Tuesday, Sept. 23, for U.N. summit aimed at galvanizing political will for a new global climate treaty by the end of 2015. Environmentalists will take to the streets Sunday, Sept. 20, in what is being billed as the largest march ever on global warming. Celebrities, CEOs and climatologists will appear at a string of events as part of New York Climate Week. DiCaprio has been tapped to talk about the cause of rising seas.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Pomp, little action expected at UN climate summit

By DINA CAPPIELLO - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry opens a meeting on Iraq at the U.N. Security Council, Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Kerry touts coalition for Islamic State fight, says ‘We’ll see what happens’ with Turkey

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

James Earl Jones in a scene from "Gimme Shelter." (AP Photo/Roadside Attractions)

Crisis pregnancy center film praised at U.N. screening

By Mary Rezac - Catholic News Agency

Illustration on faulty global warming science by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

SOON & MONCKTON: Boycotting the U.N. climate summit

By Willie Soon and Christopher Monckton

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon participates in a news conference, at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

U.N. chief calls for about $1 billion to fight Ebola

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Henry Mac Donald, Permanent Representative of Suriname to the United Nations

Small states speak with moral authority

By P.D. Paulin

The United Nations has named Leonardo DiCaprio a U.N. Messenger of Peace with a special focus on climate change. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made the announcement Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014, calling DiCaprio “a credible voice in the environmental movement.” DiCaprio poses for a portrait in New York in this Dec. 15, 2013, file photo. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP, File)

United Nations names Leonardo DiCaprio as Messenger of Peace on Climate Change

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times