Andrew Revkin Boy, Michael, if my writing and blogging has allowed even one person (you) to step out of the fog of competing messages and obfuscated science in the climate arena, I feel it's been worth the hassles (and all that «scorching» you refer to, which has come from folks on all sides of this issue at one point or another). (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
This is a request for precisely the type of prediction - based conditionality for decisions that is impossible to provide in the climate arena. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
In the climate arena, I think for too long, people have used numbers like «two degrees» or «350» to give a kind of mechanistic determinant to what needs to be done, when, in fact, when you look behind those numbers, it really is much more about choices. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)