Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot

Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?

I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.

Sandy was particularly destructive because it was prevented from moving back out to sea by a "blocking pattern" associated with the jet stream. There's debate about this, but one recent study suggested that melting sea ice in the Arctic may lead to such blocking.

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition