Arctic ice will melt. Mountain ranges will thaw into refuges from the blistering heat. The world's semi-arid regions will turn to wastelands. Scared? We should be, according to the world's leading climate change experts.

The United Nations climate change summit, now in its second week in Montreal, is a beast of a conference (read official reports from each day here). Even experienced attendees go crazy trying to decipher its massive schedule of events and activities. Newspapers only report the biggest story of each day – if they report on the conference at all. And they often don't report at all on the most interesting details, which tend to come from each night’s parties and each day’s chance hallway meetings.