There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn't work like that... There's a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.