“Climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today, more serious even than the threat of terrorism… The US government is failing to take up the challenge of global warming.”
David King, UK chief scientific adviser (Science, vol 303, p 176)
“Among ourselves, we think our inspection system is the lowest in the world.”
An unnamed manager with “nearly 30 years’ service in the US agriculture department’s food safety and inspection service” commenting on the discovery of the US’s first official case of mad cow disease (The Guardian, London, 12 January)
“The internet is about to go mobile, and that could make many…
