[when I'm not working I like to] listen to music, watch something really funny like South Park.
As a government employee, you can't testify against the government.
Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career.
. . . 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.
I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.
Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several reasons, including warming of the ocean, but especially because of ocean acidification, a direct effect of added carbon dioxide. Ocean life dependent on carbonate shells and skeletons is threatened by dissolution as the ocean becomes more acid.
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.
The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.
The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.
I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the "black people's CNN. " Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.