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

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

In 2005... Mumbai, India, saw that country's most intense recorded instance of rainfall - 3 feet of rain in twenty-four hours.

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.

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.

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.