I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside.

One of my favorite places is the Maldives, an all-Muslim nation in the Indian Ocean with a culture that stretches back 5,000 years. But since the highest point in the archipelago is a meter or two above sea level, even the next hundred are not guaranteed. They've committed to becoming the first carbon-neutral nation on Earth by 2020, building windmills as fast as they can.

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

We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in a certain narrow sense this is the case, in many important ways just the opposite is true. We also live at a moment of deep ignorance, when vital knowledge that humans have always possessed about who we are and where we live seems beyond our reach. An Unenlightenment. An age of missing information.

On the top of these mile thick slabs of ice the water is percolating quickly to the base and greasing the skids, as it were, for the slide of that ice into the ocean.

We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)

I guess the underlying principle might be, don't make it too easy for them to stereotype you.