Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels.

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

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

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

...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.

A level of no more than 350 ppm is still feasible, with the help of reforestation and improved agricultural practices, but just barely - time is running out.

Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.