“It was muddy, green, mossy water, but it worked.”
Gilbert Gaedcke, who survived for five days on a barren lava field in Hawaii by squeezing water from moss (The Daily Telegraph, London, 25 July)
“Intrusive, far-reaching and intimidating.”
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Raymond Bradley on the request by Joe Barton, Republican congressman from Texas and a climate change sceptic, for personal financial details of three scientists. Bradley, of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is co-author of a study claiming that temperatures rose precipitously in the 20th century (The Washington Post, 23 July)
“The fundamental thing is to make real progress in realising the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.”
North Korean vice-foreign minister Kim Key Wan at the reopening of the six-nation nuclear disarmament talks in Beijing, China (The New York Times, 26 July)
“They haven’t ratified the Kyoto protocol and there are no signals to industry that we need to constrain greenhouse pollution.”
Greenpeace campaigner Catherine Fitzpatrick, arguing that it was pointless for the Australian government to release a report on saving the country’s ecosystems from climate change while doing nothing to cut emissions (The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 July)
“Quite a lot of people went to higher ground and slept on the mountain, but those with experience of last time went only as high as needed. Some just slept on the roof.”
Andrew Hewett, a British dive operator, on the response on the island of Phi Phi in Thailand to a tsunami warning on Sunday after a massive quake hit the Andaman islands (CNN.com, 26 July)
