It is imperative to get the smelters to pay a fair price for their power; otherwise, market forces can never induce them to limit their emissions. - Tim Flannery

Nothing in predictive climate science is more certain than the extinction of many of the world’s mountain-dwelling species.

This problem may not occur for several hundred years, but by the time we see the first signs, it will be far too late to do anything about it.

The golden toad was the first documented victim of global warming. We had killed it with our profligate use of coal-fired electricity and our oversize cars just as surely as if we had flattened its forest with bulldozers. It was as if, having experienced it, we did not recognize what happiness was.