On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans.

The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act quickly.

Conservatives... are so opposed to government regulations that they are skeptical of anyone who identifies a problem that requires regulatory solutions - and they are inherently accepting of those who downplay such problems.

Time is short. We have at most a decade to sharply reverse course.

Much of the scientific community has been astonished that their increasingly strong and detailed warnings have been either ignored or attacked.

By the end of the third decade of this century, all of American life - politics, international relations, our homes, our jobs, our industries, the kind of cars we drive - will be forever transformed by the climate and energy challenge.

Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere.