Occupation: Professor Birth: March 29, 1941
'Cap and trade' generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public ….
The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes..
It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them..
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….
'Goals' and 'caps' on carbon emissions are practically worthless, if coal emissions continue, because of the exceedingly long lifetime of carbon diox….
The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this century. We would….
The climate dice are now loaded. Some seasons still will be cooler than the long-term average, but the perceptive person should notice that the frequ….
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..
The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death..
Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards)..
We're running out of time..
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..
What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue..
Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening..
CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual. In my opinion, these….
Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several reasons, includ….
The question is not whether to close the parks, but how to accomplish this goal..
Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow ….
We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life..
Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that..