On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.

The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.

Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.

The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.

Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.

Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy.

Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.

The point of living in the world is just to stay interested.

There are things I could say. But I don't.

The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

For those who are still merely vegetarian and not yet vegan, I ask, what in heaven's name are you waiting for?

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive.

It's the 'National Enquirer' for the ad people

Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through to heaven, our concern should be whether our Lord can always get through to us.

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.