The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.