What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.

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

Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed.

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

Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several reasons, including warming of the ocean, but especially because of ocean acidification, a direct effect of added carbon dioxide. Ocean life dependent on carbonate shells and skeletons is threatened by dissolution as the ocean becomes more acid.

If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders.

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.