Rock Stars Get Room Keys,

Rock Stars Get Room Keys, I Get Business Cards.

You Always Have To Remember That Mother Nature Is A Lot Like Your Body. If Your Temperature Goes From 98.6 To 100.6, You Don't Feel So Good. If It Goes From 100.6 To 102.6, Well, You Call The Doctor. If It Goes From 102.6 To 104.6, You're In The Emergency Room At A Hospital. The Same With Mother Nature - Small Changes In Global Average Temperatures Have A Huge Climate Effect.

So What Am I? I Guess I Would Call Myself A Sober Optimist...if You Are Not Sober About The Scale Of The Challenge, Then You Are Not Paying Attention. But If You Are Not An Optimist, You Have No Chance Of Generating The Kind Of Mass Movement Needed To Achieve The Needed Scale.

When You Can't Rely On Sticking A Pipe In The Ground, What You Have To Rely On Is Unlocking The Energy And Talent Of All Your People - Men And Women.

America Is The Greatest Engine Of Innovation That Has Ever Existed, And It Can't Be Duplicated Anytime Soon, Because It Is The Product Of A Multitude Of Factors: Extreme Freedom Of Thought, An Emphasis On Independent Thinking, A Steady Immigration Of New Minds, A Risk-taking Culture With No Stigma Attached To Trying And Failing, A Noncorrupt Bureaucracy, And Financial Markets And A Venture Capital System That Are Unrivaled At Taking New Ideas And Turning Them Into Global Products.