Quotes About Warming

Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons.

Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.

We cannot criticise global warming sceptics for denying the scientific consensus on climate when we ignore the same consensus on both the safety and the beneficial uses of nuclear power and genetic engineering.

When the Earth was last four degrees warmer, there was no ice at either pole. Global warming of this magnitude would eventually leave the whole planet without ice for the first time in nearly 40 million years.

With an Apollo Program scale-up of nuclear and other low-carbon power sources we still – just about – have time to avoid the worst of global warming.

There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.

Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

The tobacco road would lead through Star Wars, nuclear winter, acid rain, and the ozone hole, all the way to global warming. Seitz and his colleagues would fight the facts and merchandise doubt all the way.

The chapters written by the natural scientists were broadly consistent with what other natural scientists had already said. No one challenged the basic claim that warming would occur, with serious physical and biological ramifications.

some people have been attacking not just the message, but the messenger. Ever since scientists first began to explain the evidence that our climate was warming—and that human activities were probably to blame—people have been questioning the data, doubting the evidence, and attacking the scientists who collect and explain it. And no one has been more brutally—or more unfairly—attacked than Ben Santer.

Scientists had been saying for a long time that human activity was a likely cause of warming. They were now saying that it was demonstrated.

Santer and his colleagues have shown that the troposphere is warming and the stratosphere is cooling. In fact, because the boundary between these two atmospheric layers is in part defined by temperature, that boundary is now moving upward. In other words, the whole structure of our atmosphere is changing. These results are impossible to explain if the Sun were the culprit. It shows that the changes we are seeing in our climate are not natural.

For every man there are certain words that are as if closer and more intimate to him that any others. And often, unexpectedly, in some remote, forsaken backwater, some deserted desert, one meets a man whose warming conversation makes you forget the pathlessness of your paths, the homelessness of your nights, and the contemporary world full of people's stupidity, of deceptions for deceiving man.

Either we prevent 1.5 degrees [Celsius] of warming or we don't.

Przyszed? do male?kiego ko?cio?a spó?niony, poniewa? czeka? na koniec kolejki do zimnych pryszniców. Uda?o mu si? przekona? barczystego k?pielowego, ?e musi zosta? w bieli?nie. Potem d?ugo rozgrzewa? si? gor?c? herbat?. Co za okrucie?stwo - polewa? ludzi letni? zaledwie wod?. By? przez to w z?ym humorze.

That's all right. I'll eat it cold. No need to warm it up." Ojii-san shrinks guiltily into himself as he sits down. He's dying to tell his wife about all the marvelous things that happened last night, but in the stern and austere atmosphere of her presence he finds the words sticking in his throat. He eats with head bowed, feeling perfectly wretched

We've known about climate change for at least six decades. But not until the most recent one was it possible to say that most people believe that climate change is happening and that we need to do something about it.

When you add up the impact on carbon sequestration and storage, forest protection and tropical and temperate forest restoration together are the most powerful solution available to address global warming.

Molecules of methane that make their way into the atmosphere create a warming effect up to thirty-four times stronger than carbon dioxide over a one-hundred-year time horizon.

eating chocolates, or lying in the sun; it was soothing, warming, totally pleasing.