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.

...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change.

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

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

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.