Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of your house.

Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless.

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.

There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of the wisdom of crowds, but now big sources of special interest money are able to prevent the passage of almost any meaningful reform that's aimed at the public interest.

If there is no cost to be paid for the indiscriminate dumping of pollution into the earth's atmosphere, then it should be a surprise to no one that today we will dump another 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet. ... We have to [act] this year, not next year. Mother Nature does not do bailouts.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

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