When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of opposites and together they are greater than either one could ever be.

Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.

A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?

Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together.

Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.

Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine.