“When it comes to an issue like child health, if the present rate of decline continues it’s not going to take 10 years to achieve the goals, it’s going to take 150.”
WHO director-general Lee Jong Wook on the problems of eliminating child mortality and malnutrition in poor countries (AFP, 22 August)
“There isn’t much money in climate science…A pay-off would be a nice top-up to my pension.”
British climate expert James Annan on his $10,000 bet with two Russian solar physicists who claim that the Earth will cool over the next decade as the sun’s activity decreases (The…
