When your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science starts to disappear.
For those people who are going to tune in strictly for the pyrotechnics, we have better and bigger explosions. That's a prerequisite of any sequel. But in terms of this, what we're really monitoring is watching the gas industry light our institutions, light our regulatory agencies, light our democracy on fire.
When the natural gas industry was knocking on my door, they were knocking on the door of millions of people. And that became something that Americans really needed to focus on.
What we've got is the wholesale embrace of fracking domestically, internationally and for export. And this couldn't be further from what we really need to do to address climate change.
When you're cornered, there are two things you can do: move or fight.
I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night.