Of all the works of civilization that interfere with the natural water distribution system, irrigation has been by far the most pervasive and powerful.

It's not at all new for wealthy and powerful interests to try to hide the ball and ignore independent analyses of relevant facts.

...2009 saw the eighth 'ten-year flood' of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year by a flood that exceeded the 500-year flood plain. All-time flood records are being broken in areas throughout the world.

I never like the question about letter grades, but I think Trump is failing. I think that every day there's another set of tweets and another set of controversies, and nothing seems to be getting done that's any good. And there seems to be kind of a policy paralysis in Washington. Even the appointments he's supposed to make as a new president, so I focus most of all on climate, and so my opinion of his time as president is certainly influenced by my opinion of the job he's done on climate. He's tried to move the country in the wrong direction.

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.

The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity.