The Greenhouse: Diplomats from all over the world are gathering in Lima, Peru to make yet another attempt to hammer out a global agreement to curtail greenhouse gas emissions and slow climate change. But scientists warn that even drastic reductions may fail to reverse the near term effects of global warming, including violent storms, droughts, flood, rising ocean levels, and food shortages.

The objective is to limit global temperatures from rising more than 3.6 degrees, but to do that emissions must be half what they are today by the middle of the century. After a four degree rise the world becomes increasingly hostile to human life.

Nation: The body of an Ohio State football player who had been missing for four days was found yesterday in a trash bin. A gun was found near the body of senior defensive tackle Kosta Karageorge and police believe he killed himself. While he was missing, Karageorge’s parents had said his disappearance may have had something to do with his history of four or five concussions, including one last month.

Hack Attack: North Korean hackers are suspected in an attack on Sony Pictures that has resulted in unreleased movies being posted free online. Four of the movies had yet to hit the theaters. The Brad Pitt war movie “Fury,” which is still in theaters, has already been downloaded nearly 900,000 times. North Korea has been furious about an upcoming movie “The Interview,” a comedy in which James Franco and Seth Rogan play two journalists recruited by the CIA to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The North Koreans don’t get the joke.

Hong Kong: Police cleared pro-Democracy demonstrators from the streets of Hong Kong in sometimes violent clashes over the weekend. In a sign of waning patience, Chief Executive CY Leung warned the demonstrators not to come back.

Ghost Soldiers: An investigation of corruption found that the Iraqi army had 50,000 soldiers who either did not exist or never put on a pair of boots. But they were paid anyway. Since the US invasion, Iraq is the land where money goes to disappear. Reports say the new prime minister is cracking down, but corruption like this exposes one of the reasons the Iraqi army is unable to hold back Islamic State extremists.

The Obit Page: The man who was Adolph Eichmann’s right hand man in the extermination of European Jews during the Holocaust died quietly in Syria four years ago, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Alois Brunner was tried in absentia and sentenced to death in 1954. The Israeli Mossad tried to assassinate him twice. Asked once by a German magazine whether he had any regrets, Brunner said, “My only regret is I didn’t murder more Jews.”

The Man in White: Speaking aboard the papal jet, Pope Francis told reporters that Muslim leaders around the world need to condemn terrorism carried out in the name of their faith and dispel the stereotype that Islam is a violent religion.

Hands Up: Five members of the St. Louis Rams walked on the field for yesterday’s game against Oakland with their hands in the air, a protest of the police shooting in Ferguson, Mo. All five of the players were black. The hands-up gesture has been a common form of protest among people who believe Michael Brown was surrendering when he was shot and killed. The St. Louis Police Association expressed outrage saying the players ignored “mountains” of evidence in support of now former Officer Darren Wilson.

The Christmas Story: 1. Black Friday Christmas shopping. 2. Cyber shopping. 3. How much the Twelve Days of Christmas would cost today. 4. Dangerous toys.

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