Source: https://www.kten.com/news/nations-at-odds-over-major-un-climate-science-report/article_a443a4aa-c6c5-5c8a-9224-4679e9056fe1.html

Tense negotiations on the timing and content of the UN’s next blockbuster assessment of global warming science opened in China on Monday, with US scientists reportedly absent.

The meeting in Hangzhou comes on the heels of the hottest year on record and rising alarm over the pace of warming.