The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.

I saw the logarithmic growth of computer power.

And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that.

Having cameras follow you is something that requires a little personal adjustment, but you actually do begin to forget they're there. It's impossible to maintain that awareness all the time, and when you're going through an emotional or absorbing experience, you really don't have any spare attention to think, "Got to remember that the camera is rolling."

Any of us who work on the task of solving the climate crisis have at times an internal struggle between hope and despair. But that's one of the things that connects this climate movement to the previous great moral revolutions, like the civil rights movement and more recently the gay rights movement. So those who feel despair should be of good cheer, as the Bible says. Have faith, have hope. We are going to win this.