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

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

Ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to global warming - strong government regulations and a government-led effort to accelerate clean-energy technologies in the market.

We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by generating renewable flows.

When people ask me what they should do, I reply, "Get informed, get outraged, and then get political."

In 2003... the White House conspired with an oil-company funded think tank to block a major government scientific report that sought to spell out the dangers of climate change to Americans.

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