I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
The question is not whether to close the parks, but how to accomplish this goal.
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.
The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.
My only goal is to make you laugh, not tell you the truth.
In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.
One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.