The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change convened in Valencia, Spain, over the weekend. It's likely you saw some coverage of it this weekend -- it made a number of front pages. In case you missed it, here's the New York Times's coverage. Among the more sobering findings: climate change and its effects are faster and deeper and more widespread than thought, and that accelerating instability makes it all a lot tougher to predict what'll happen next. Among the fallout: a direct request that China and the United States do a lot more about climate change than they are currently.