Occupation: Professor Birth: February 11, 1945 Death: July 19, 2010
Scientists are stuck in this belief that we tell people probabilities, not absolute answers..
We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have... Each of us has to deci….
The dramatic importance of climate changes to the world’s future has been dangerously underestimated by many, often because we have been lulled by mo….
We are not just scientists, but human beings as well. Like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates in….
We are 25 years too late. If the object is to avoid dangerous change, we've already had it. The object now is to avoid really dangerous change..
Science usually operates in sort of three modes, things that are well established, we know what we're talking about, more highly confident. There are….
This 'double ethical bind' we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is betwee….
I wish I could blame my failure on my integrity & refusal to play bullshit games. But the truth is I just play them really badly..
I only lie for sex or money or to practice for when I need to lie for sex or money..
The fact that the Antarctica is beginning to look more like it's part of the story, as well..
In the early 1970s, the northern hemisphere appeared to have been cooling at an alarming rate. There was frequent talk of a new ice age. Books and do….
There is a strength of conviction that can only come from being 100% wrong..
Mark Twain had it backwards. Nowadays everybody is doing something about the weather, but nobody is talking about it..
The amount of electricity that has been saved in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is only a moral virtue ... and that you need i….
Even hating myself I still think I'm better than you..