It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.

Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses.

Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.

Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they evolved with it, as the slower climate changes and uplift produced more grass and less forest.

Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.

Carbon-free energy is simply something we have to do. The time for talk is past. If we turn around net carbon emissions by 2020 rather than 2040, we get another 2° of fever rather than 3° - and that's a big difference.