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.

Replacing half of the U.S. ground-transport fuels with hydrogen from wind power by 2050, for example, might require 1,400 gigawatts of advanced wind turbines or more... replacing those fuels with electricity might require less than 400 GW.

Do believe that if we fail to act in time, it will be the single biggest regret any of us has at the end of our lives.

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

Hurricane seasons with four or more super-hurricanes, those with sustained wind speeds of 131 mph or more will soon become the norm.

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.

The best thing about improvements in health care is that all the climate-change deniers are now going to live long enough to see how wrong they were.