The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.
The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive changes, effects that would be irreversible, if we do not rapidly slow fossil-fuel emissions over the next few decades.
The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine.
...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made greenhouse gases.
...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change.
It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.
Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed.