Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to their nation's gravest threats.

The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun.

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

The United States could dramatically reduce its carbon emissions per kilowatt-hour without raising its overall energy bill.

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.

Some 3 million years ago, when the earth was a little more than 3°C warmer than preindustrial levels (about 2.2°C warmer than today), Antarctica had far less ice and sea levels were a stunning 25 meters higher than today. If we stay on our current emissions path, the planet will almost certainly be that warm by the century's end.

If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the likely future facing our country before midcentury - probably in your own lifetime.