Environment News Service: “Global warming has already had enormous effects on our planet, and we have no time to lose in tackling this crisis,” US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the first-ever joint session of the Arctic Council and the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, which opened its two-week conference on 6 April. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the joint meeting of the Arctic Council and the Antarctic Treaty countries. (Photo courtesy State Dept.) In 1959, representatives from 12 …