...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made greenhouse gases.

...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made greenhouse gases.

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

The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change.

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.

Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).

The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it.