Occupation: Professor Birth: March 29, 1941
As a government employee, you can't testify against the government..
The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change..
If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elder….
We have to, in the next ten years, begin to decrease the rate of carbon dioxide emissions and then flatten it out. If that doesn't happen in ten year….
Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet..
If we fail to act, we will end up with a different planet..
Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant an….
Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels..
Our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change. The deadly Euro….
It has become very difficult for anyone to argue that observed global warming is natural variability. We have good reason for being able to say that ….
In view of the immense power of natural weather and climate fluctuations and the great buffering capacity of the Earth, especially the ocean, it is e….
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..
We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life..
What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue..
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….
Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards)..
Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that..
It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control..
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….
'Goals' and 'caps' on carbon emissions are practically worthless, if coal emissions continue, because of the exceedingly long lifetime of carbon diox….