I think we need to go straight at the fossil fuel industry.

The fight around climate change, which I've spent my life on, is somewhat more difficult than gay marriages because no one makes trillions of dollars a year being a bigot, and that's how much the fossil-fuel industry pulls in pumping carbon into the air. But the principle is the same, I think.

What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.

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

If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration's decision in the first few weeks in its tenure in office to abnegate the Kyoto treaties that set our international perception into a nose-dive. People around the world looked on in amazement as the biggest part of the problem decided it wasn't going to make any effort to help with the solution.

Solar power seems to be truly bipartisan in its appeal.

Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.