Occupation: Historian Birth: November 25, 1958
Many people have the impression that there is significant scientific disagreement about global climate change. It's time to lay that misapprehension ….
Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues? Why would ….
Scientists have been saying, for an awfully long time, that we're all interconnected. Scientists would use the word 'ecosystem' to express that idea.….
At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong claims about the scie….
It's extremely hard to know what the economic consequences of any decision will be. And I'm not a, a, a financial analyst, so I, I generally don't tr….
What to do about climate change is political, it's social, and it's moral, which is one of the reasons the scientific community reached out to the Po….
There's real economic costs to climate change - So, Superstorm Sandy led to billions of dollars in damages. The fires out in the west, 70 million dol….
Most people have thought of ... climate change as a problem about the environment that is separate and distinct from problems of human wellbeing..
When God made the planet, he made the plants, he made the animals, he made the Sun and the Moon, and he made us, and we're all interconnected, and wh….
Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would….
I think Pope Francis is our Pope Francis. I mean, the point of him is that he's a global leader, and he's trying, I think he's embracing that role..
It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and what that really means if….
I think it is important for people to understand that there are real serious economic costs and real serious economic damages associated with inactio….
Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that..
Scientists should continue doing what they've always done, which is to understand the Earth as well as they can..
Scientific monitoring is going to be terrifically important, because whatever steps we take ... we will have to monitor those steps in order to know ….
We don't survive without plants and animals because we rely on them, we rely on plants to put oxygen into the atmosphere, we rely on ... fish and cro….
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people..
When we damage the environment, we damage everything we depend on..