Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a dog. I think not. After all, it is perfectly normalโindeed, deeply humanโto be moved when nature presents us with a vision of great beauty. Should we not be moved when it produces a visionโa creatureโof the purest sweetness?
Charles KrauthammerThe joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.
Charles KrauthammerObama is clearly a narcissist in the non-scientific use of the word. He is so self-involved, you see it from his rise.Thereโs not anyone of independent stature around him. There was in the first term, because he needed them to prop him up. But now that he entered a second term, heโs the master of the universe, so thereโs nobody around him. He is impervious to outside advice, real advice that he takes.
Charles KrauthammerI don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists such as Freeman Dyson, one of the greatest physicists of the last hundred years, who has studied the question, who believes quite the opposite. The reason transnational action is so difficult is because the major problem with climate change is, A, that there is no consensus, and, B, that the economic cost is simply staggering. Reversing it completely might mean undoing the modern industrial economy.
Charles Krauthammer