"Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced..."

-- "An Inconvenient Truth" (2006 documentary), Al Gore (U.S. Vice President during the Bill Clinton administration (1993-2001); Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 2007; environmental activist)