If someone asks him to give the thumbs-up, he does.

He's slowly coming to. He hears me; he knows I'm there. He's been responding well to any commands. If someone says raise your arm or move your feet, he does it. He knows I'm there. When I came in this morning, he squeezed my hand.

He's amazing. He's the strongest guy I know.

Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.

You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more jobs associated with fossil fuels than other industries. That's of course not true. But they're hammering that into the voters' heads.

The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.