The 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing.

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

The scientific excitement in comparing theory with data, and developing some understanding of global changes that are occurring, is what makes all the other stuff worth it.

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

The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years.

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

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.