Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.

We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years. It actually goes back a lot further than that, but the ice core records show a million years. So, nature has this normal oscillation within this zone, and all of a sudden, we're forty percent outside that zone.

Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.

James Balog Quotes