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

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

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

Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.

We're handing them [young people & future generations] a climate system which is potentially out of their control. We're in an emergency: you can see what's on the horizon over the next few decades with the effects it will have on ecosystems, sea level and species extinction

If we fail to act, we will end up with a different planet.

Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.