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The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

If we fail to act, we will end up with a different planet.

The global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change.

The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change.

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

There is still time to act and avoid a worsening climate, but we are wasting precious time,

The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it.

The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade.

We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.

Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.

The question is not whether to close the parks, but how to accomplish this goal.

Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed.

Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.

Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.

We're running out of time.

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.

Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels.

Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.

As a government employee, you can't testify against the government.

You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media.

Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.

Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career,

Adding CO2 to the air is like throwing another blanket on the bed.

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet we dither.

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.

Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).

I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.

What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.

Talking nice about sun and wind and green jobs is just greenwash.

I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change ... no longer than a decade, at the most.

The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.

We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.

You can't tie a rope around the ice sheet. You can't build a wall around the ice sheets.

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years.

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise.