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.

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

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

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.

The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the industrial revolution more than two centuries ago.

The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years.

The last time Earth was 1°C warmer than today, sea levels were 20 feet higher.