How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree... We don't have much time left.

Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned by special interests.

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.

We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions... We are near a tipping point, a point of no return, beyond which the built in momentum and feedbacks will carry us to levels of climate change with staggering consequences for humanity and all of the residents of this planet.

The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade