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"I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems."
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"We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem."

"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."

"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication."

"You may have numerous answers to your problems, but none can really solve them. Answers are not solutions."

"Undoubtedly, there are numerous problems with the immigration system here in The United States."

"I like real problems, the human condition - twisted, darker stuff."

"There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate."

"I do as much debugging as possible on the Mac, but I occasionally must debug problems in the PC world, which is significantly slower."
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"The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly."

"Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues."

"We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports."

"Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left."

"But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression."

"So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming."

"I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view."

"The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive."

"Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy."
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