Sarah’s Reviews > Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet – A Scientist's Hopeful, Heartbreaking Exploration of Climate > Status Update
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“God save us from the retired engineers, I thought. On my desk were three letters from them, one in Comic Sans, all of them pointing out supposed flaws in the scientific consensus on climate change. I hope these men are being paid by the fossil fuel industry, but I suspect the bleak truth is that they are doing all this work for free, having discovered an exciting new hobby in retirement.”
— Jan 24, 2026 05:13AM
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“Think of the same story—say, one about climate change—told through different genres. The Bollywood musical would be four hours long and result in global emissions falling to zero after a lavish final dance number.”
— Jan 27, 2026 08:52PM
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My takeaway from that chapter: instead of burning the witch, we should be burning 🔥 the rich 🤑
— Jan 24, 2026 08:51AM
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“Yes, there are random variations in the climate. But insisting they’ve caused present-day climate change is like standing at a crime scene, examining a wall full of bloody handprints and a corpse with a knife in its back, and saying, Probably natural causes.”
— Jan 24, 2026 05:56AM
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“But I would say that the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement was (and remains) one of the stupidest things to have happened in American history—and this is a nation that once did an experiment to see if nuking a submarine would damage it.”
I need popcorn for this.
— Jan 24, 2026 05:40AM
I need popcorn for this.
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She’s also using Greek mythology to help explain physics and it’s really entertaining.
— Jan 22, 2026 07:21AM
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“The future remains uncertain. But I’m sending my children there, and they are never coming back.”
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— Jan 22, 2026 06:50AM
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Jan 24, 2026 05:16AM
“I feel I should have more compassion for these men. I, too, believe in things that don’t exist, like a level of education I could reach that would stop them explaining things to me.”
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