The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the industrial revolution more than two centuries ago.

Much of the scientific community has been astonished that their increasingly strong and detailed warnings have been either ignored or attacked.

Do believe that if we fail to act in time, it will be the single biggest regret any of us has at the end of our lives.

On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans.

In 2005... Mumbai, India, saw that country's most intense recorded instance of rainfall - 3 feet of rain in twenty-four hours.

The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast cities into pre- Katrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes.

As long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of the world's leading climate scientists, the public inevitably ends up with a misimpression about the state of our scientific understanding.