15 years ago, I was very pessimistic.

I was very much in the world.

We're all doomed because of climate change,

and there's just no way we're going to solve this.

Now I'm framed as the kind of optimistic person on climate.

A lot of it has come from stepping back to look at the data.

So what does that data look like?

Find out this week on the grey area,

hosted by me, Sean Elling. New episodes

every Monday, available everywhere. A visit from St. Nicholas. Was the night before Christmas,

when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of sugarplums danced in their

heads.

And Mamma and her kerchief and I in my cap had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap.

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,

I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.

Away to the window I flew like a flash, tore open the shutters, and threw up the

sash. The moon, on the breast of the new fallen snow, gave a luster of midday to objects below.

When what to my wondering eyes did appear, but a miniature sleigh, an eight tiny reindeer?

With a little old driver so lively and quick, I knew in a moment he must be St. Nick.

More rapid than eagles, his coursers, they came, and he whistled and shouted and called them by name.

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