Quote of the Day: Earth Is Being Cooked at a Quickening Pace
'It's always worse than expected when it happens to you.'
KATE MARVEL, a climate scientist, noting that more people will experience climate change in damaging and frightening ways as the world continues to emit planet-warming greenhouse gases.
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