Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned by special interests.

We're running out of time.

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.

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

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

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

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

How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree... We don't have much time left.

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

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

We have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.

I learnt years ago not to use logic to understand African politics.

Isn't your natural talent or an industry expert to succeed in ‪‎sales‬. It's how you explain your failures.

It could be another election where the alignments between Republicans and Democrats are different than they were this time and who a foreign country prefers.

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

Don't mistake the Russia you want to exist for the Russia that there actually is. Be realistic.

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.

When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word 'woman' and raise it specially?

An undevout astronomer is mad.

I guess I just want everything to be available immediately.

Calm down, Horus said. "Don't tell me to calm down!" Bast frowned. "I didn't." "Talking to him!" I pointed at my forehead.