[The Maldives] they've become deeply politically engaged - just for instance, the president taught his whole cabinet to scuba dive so they could hold an underwater cabinet meeting along their dying coral reef and pass a 350 resolution to send to the U.N.

When you are in a hole, stop digging!

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

I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the earth's atmosphere at the moment.

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

Very few people on earth ever get to say: 'I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.' If you'll join this fight that's what you'll get to say

Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth. Arctic sea ice is near all-time record lows. Record floods from Pakistan to Queensland to the Mississippi basin; record drought from the steppes of Russia to the plains of Texas...This is what climate change looks like in its early stages.