The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this century. We would be miserable stewards of creation. We would rob our own children and grandchildren.

The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

As a government employee, you can't testify against the government.

The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade.

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now with climate change, yet we dither.

I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.