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An Israeli ultra-orthodox man takes a photo with his cellular phone of the damage caused to buildings in kibbutz Beit Oren, destroyed in a wildfire in northern Israel Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. European aircraft dumped tons of water over flames shooting from tall trees Friday in northern Israel as firefighters struggled for a second day to contain the country's worst-ever forest fire, which has killed dozens of people and displaced thousands. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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Prison guards carry the coffin of Eran Weizel, killed when a wildfire in northern Israel set a bus alight which was carrying Israeli prison guards heading to rescue Palestinian inmates at a nearby prison, at the military cemetery in Haifa, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. Foreign firefighters and aircraft poured into Israel Friday in an unprecedented wave of international assistance as the country battled a huge forest fire that has killed dozens of people and displaced thousands. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Israelis gather around the grave of Eran Weizel, killed when a wildfire in northern Israel set a bus alight which was carrying Israeli prison guards heading to rescue Palestinian inmates at a nearby prison, at the military cemetery in Haifa, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. Foreign firefighters and aircraft poured into Israel Friday in an unprecedented wave of international assistance as the country battled a huge forest fire that has killed dozens of people and displaced thousands. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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A mourner places her hand on the grave of Eran Weizel, killed when a wildfire in northern Israel set a bus alight which was carrying Israeli prison guards heading to rescue Palestinian inmates at a nearby prison, at the military cemetery in Haifa, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. Foreign firefighters and aircraft poured into Israel Friday in an unprecedented wave of international assistance as the country battled a huge forest fire that has killed dozens of people and displaced thousands. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Firefighters rest on the road at sunrise after participating overnight in the efforts to gain control over a massive wildfire, still raging near by, in Tirat Hacarmel, northern Israel, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. The worst forest fire in Israel's history devastated one of the country's few forested areas, killing dozens of people as guards raced to rescue inmates at a prison in the fire zone, destroying homes and forcing the evacuation of thousands. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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Nissan Motor Co. Chief Operating Officer Toshiyuki Shiga introduces the company's zero-emission electric car, Leaf, during a news conference at its headquarters in Yokohama, Japan, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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Mono Lake tufa towers are seen in this Monday, Nov. 15, 2004, file photo near Lee Vining, Calif. The discovery of a strange bacteria that can use arsenic as one of its nutrients widens the scope for finding new forms of life on Earth and possibly beyond. But the researchers found that the bacteria, discovered in Mono Lake, California, is able to continue to grow after substituting arsenic for phosphorous. (AP Photo/Ben Margot,File)
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Environmental activists from 350.org, left, demonstrate before the cameras of journalists during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Thursday Dec. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
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FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2006 file photo, corn grows on a farm near Morrow, Ohio. On our current emissions path, climate change becomes the "threat multiplier" that could double grain prices by 2050 and leave millions more children malnourished, global food experts reported Wednesday Dec. 1, 2010. In one combination of climate models and scenarios, "the corn belt in the United States could actually see a significant reduction in productivity potential," according to senior research fellow Gerald Nelson of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)
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India's Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, smiles during an interview with The Associated Press in Cancun, Mexico, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. The U.N. sponsored network of climate scientists said world governments must invest more in cutting-edge research to 'get a handle' on how much and how quickly the world will warm in decades to come. (AP Photo/Charles J. Hanley)
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Chicago Bears fan Erik Grogan holds a sign about Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher, before an NFL football game between the Bears and the Philadelphia Eagles in Chicago, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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The Rockefeller Christmas tree, a 12-ton, 74-foot Norway spruce covered with 30,000 energy-efficient lights , is lit in Rockefeller Center in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
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Tiger Woods signs autographs at the the Chevron World Challenge golf tournament at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Tiger Woods addresses the media during a news conference at the the Chevron World Challenge golf tournament at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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A bus burst into flames as it raced to an Israeli prison during a massive forest fire on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. Dozens of prison guards participating in the rescue mission died, officials said, in one of the deadliest accidents in the nation's history. (AP Photo/Avishag Shar-Yeshuv)
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** FILE ** Crews clean up oil that washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon spill on Pensacola Beach in Pensacola, Fla., in June 2010. (AP Photo/Michael Spooneybarger, File)
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The Rockefeller Christmas tree, a 12-ton, 74-foot Norway spruce covered in 30,000 energy efficient LED lights, is lit in Rockefeller Center in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
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The Rockefeller Christmas tree, a 12-ton, 74-foot Norway spruce covered in 30,000 energy efficient LED lights, is lit in Rockefeller Center in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
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Cars are partially covered by water at the flooded parking lot of a car importer in Palmira, southern Colombia, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. According to meteorologists the "La Nina" climatic phenomenon is causing an exceptionally wet rainy season that has caused floods and landslides, killing over 130 people throughout Colombia. (AP Photo/Christian Escobar Mora)
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People watch rescue efforts after homes fell due to heavy rain in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday Nov. 30, 2010. Flooding and landslides unleashed by torrential rains have killed at least 30 people in Venezuela, forced thousands from their homes and idled an oil refinery. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
