Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.

The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade

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.

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.

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

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.

I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change. No longer than a decade at most.