We've built a new Earth. It's not as nice as the old one; it's the greatest mistake humans have ever made, one that we will pay for literally forever.

We're putting more carbon into the atmosphere than the atmosphere can absorb. And everybody told us when we started, coz we knew nothing when we started - we still don't know very much - but everybody told us 'this is crazy, you don't use a scientific data point, it's a number, people don't respond to numbers'.

The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.

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

TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.

So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.