...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.

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

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

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.

The danger is that the compromises and special interests inherent in Kyoto-style targets and cap-and-trade will be accepted because of bureaucratic momentum.

We cannot afford to put off change any longer. We have to get on a new path within this new administration. We have only four years left for Obama to set an example to the rest of the world. America must take the lead.

Talking nice about sun and wind and green jobs is just greenwash.