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

Some time this century, the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all natural factors.

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.

Kyoto questions the philosophies underpinning societies such as America and Australia, which cling to the myth of limitless growth.