A Nobel-winning UN panel of scientists today issued a stark vision of human hardship and vanishing species in a world growing increasingly hot.

The Earth is hurtling toward a warmer age at a quickening pace, a Nobel-winning UN scientific panel said in a landmark report today, warning of inevitable human suffering and the threat of species extinction.

The head of the US delegation to a key global warming conference today called its new report “significant,” and “valuable” to policy makers.