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

We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children.

If Americans in 2100 came to see 12 meters sea-level rise as inevitable by 2200, who can even begin to fathom how the nation would respond?

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.

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.

The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act quickly.

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.