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.

Would PBS go so far as to give air time to an even more extreme kind of disinformer, a Holocaust denier?

We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by generating renewable flows.

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.

Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against catastrophic climate change.

Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to their nation's gravest threats.

In 2003... the White House conspired with an oil-company funded think tank to block a major government scientific report that sought to spell out the dangers of climate change to Americans.

Time is short. We have at most a decade to sharply reverse course.

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.

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

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.

...we find our vocations not by focusing on ourselves, but by focusing on others.

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

For me, tango was always for the ear rather than the feet.

Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

My mum is actually really wholesome.

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

Everyone goes through a hard time in their life.

Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.

In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.