this volcano? reporter: you know, it was very interesting because at the last police conference, the government press conference that took place in new zealand, we heard from an earth scientist who said it was not a particularly big eruption and called it a, quote, throat-clearing eruption. this was an eruption that was not necessarily big. we learned later that new zealand airlines said that its flights were not affected at all. they said it s not big because it wasn t powerful enough to disperse volcanic material beyond the island itself. but it s a very different situation on white island and for the 50 people on the island at the time of the eruption. i just got off a skype chat with a volcanologist based in sydney, and i asked her what it would have been like for an individual on white island at the time of the eruption. and what she shared with me was truly harrowing. she pointed out that on this island, it has a water lake at
the diagnostic criteria we use in our field are based on observable behavior. not intrapsychic processes. we can t go through a news cycle without observing abnormal behavior by donald trump. the fact that he s an unstable, paranoid grandiose liar cut from the same cloth as every megama nye cal dictator. cut from the cloth on whether we should or should not comment on the president. i have yet to meet a mental health professional that believes that donald trump is competent to be president. you re about as likely to find one of those as an earth scientist who believes there s no global warming. none of whom probably have met the man, much less evaluated him. hence my example, you could be saying the same thing about me or anybody else who is on television and the worry that i have is when words like the diagnoses you just offered start getting tossed around freely, individuals who are dealing with
there s 2.2 trillion barrels stored in canada, the largest deposit of oil on the planet. it s going to be developed and whether we bring this pipeline across nebraska or whether it s rail or barges, as long as we re using oil in this country, which we re either importing from canada, saudi arabia, or venezuela. i m not a climate change denier. i m an earth scientist. i started 30 years ago studying the planet and i believe that methane and carbon dioxide and the emissions that humans are using these hydrocarbons, whether it s coal or whether it s oil or even cleaner natural gas, we re creating the climate change. but we re not going to leave the hydrocarbon era tomorrow, and the sooner we move with a carbon tax the sooner we move with electric cars, the sooner we move with cleaner and better energy, the sooner we re going to decrease the risk to our planet. but it isn t just the keystone pipeline that is going to be the line in the sand. mark fulton, what about