When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

One degree turns out to be enough to really unhinge all sorts of earth's ecosystems.

We just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures.

All the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the [climate] effects are larger and more rapid than we had thought even a decade ago.

In the scientific community, the debate is over, for all intents and purposes, about whether or not the planet is heating and who is causing it. In fact, it's more or less been over since 1995.

A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.

No one is strong enough  -  given the magnitude of the task, everyone has to step up their game.