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.

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

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

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 are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.

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

Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.