The climate dice are now loaded. Some seasons still will be cooler than the long-term average, but the perceptive person should notice that the frequency of unusually warm extremes is increasing. It is the extremes that have the most impact on people and other life on the planet.
What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.
We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.
Only in the last few years did the science crystallize, revealing the urgency – our planet really is in peril. If we do not change course soon, we will hand our children a situation that is out of their control.
The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade.
The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.
It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.
The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years.
The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.
The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today-which is what we expect later this century-sea levels were 25m higher. So that is what we can look forward to if we don’t act soon.
Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.
Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.
We’re running out of time.
Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.
We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.
Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.
The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade.
Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.
If we fail to act, we will end up with a different planet.