Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.

I think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news.

As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so

Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum mechanics. It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom. The universe is also weird, with its laws of nature that make it hospitable to the growth of mind. I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it passes beyond the scale of our comprehension.

We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.

I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.

Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.