We've abnegated the Kyoto treaty, we've instituted a voluntary program that's obviously not been working, we've taken every effort to excise references to global warming from official documents, to try to undermine international conferences that work on environmental issues, and on and on and on.

I just keep trying to explain what's going on with our planet - and now, to explain what's going on with our politics, which explains why we're not doing anything about the former.

I think [George W.] Bush has done nothing right about global warming.

Environmentalism, I'd always been told, was just rich white people.

Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

The polling data shows not an unbelievable level of concern [on climate issue] but a general awareness of this problem. And now I think it's up to all sorts of people who really care about these things to continue on this new ground to try and make this the central political issue it needs to be.

Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years.