Quotes About Climate

What are we going to do about it is the question." "We, as a civilization? About global climate change?" "I know, right? Too vague! Too much diffusion of responsibility. Too much politics.

Long ago Mars was an oasis of running water.Today the Martiansurfaceis a sterile,barren desert. Here on Earth, who knows what climactic knobs we unwittingly turn,which might one day render Earth as dry and lifeless as Mars. (From the cover of Old Poison by Joan Francis)

Had Earth been much closer to the Sun, the oceans would have evaporated. Had Earth been much farther away, the oceans would have frozen.

The seven largest emitters of fossil fuels—the United States, the European Union, China, Russia, Japan, India, and China

One degree Celsius won't feel like much on any given day to any given person, but totaled across the globe, it's enough extra heat energy to power hundreds more hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and blizzards every year.

Humans, though, have managed to double the carbon dioxide level in less than two centuries—a hundred times faster than it would happen in nature without humanity's help.

On the subject of climate change, the data clearly show that Earth is warming up, and that humans are contributing to the warming. That's the fairest assessment of the evidence.

Obama has acted aggressively on the issue most important to my generation: climate change.

I believe that human beings shouldn't live in climates that they cannot survive naked... and New York, although full of energy and heart, does not fall within that rubric.

The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.

Climate is always evolving, and natural disaster have always existed.

Natural gas is a dirty fossil fuel like the rest of them.

The South Koreans are better educated than the English. The Swedish are happier. The Germans are more compassionate. The Azerbaijanis are more literate. Brunei has cleaner air. Latvia has faster broadband. Everywhere has a better climate. And yet for some astonishing reason you still act as if you matter. Why is that, do you suppose? Ah, yes, empire. You lost yours over a century ago. The Americans are only just losing theirs and that's not going down so well, either.

Fair point. I suppose dressing up in hot countries simply involves putting on shoes. A bit like Wales.

I don't remember any snow in all of the Torah. The Lord probably doesn't even go to places where it snows.

By 2020 there were some 1.8 billion air-conditioning units in operation, with more than half of them in just two countries, China and the US. But this is only a fraction of the potential total because among the nearly three billion people living in the world's warmest climates, fewer than 10 percent have air conditioning, compared to 90 percent in the US or Japan.

was so hot that every now and then a bird fell from the sky, landing with a little thump on the hard-packed dirt. The chickens sat in dusty heaps on the ground, their heads lolled forward, and the last two cows stood together, too hot and tired to move. A listless breeze moved through the farm, plucking at the empty clothesline.

if only 11 percent of the world's cropland—land that is typically not in use—improved its community of soil microorganisms as much as Johnson and his colleagues did in their test plots, the amount of carbon sequestered in the soil would offset all our current emissions of carbon dioxide.

The first thing they need is a fuel that doesn't pollute. The oil companies are insisting that everyone burn chemical-fire fuels that smoke and get soot and poison gases into the atmosphere. Until they have and are using a better energy source, it's useless to do anything else to salvage the planet.

All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.

One time a Fuckwit brought a snowball into work to prove that the planet getting warmer was just a story to scare little ones and I don't know for sure but I like to think he (or at least all his descendants) got eaten by sharks.

Green Christmas, white Easter

the motto "Shop less, live more, save the earth," the team at Operation Noah, anxious about climate change, is promoting a series of events throughout Advent encouraging people to experience Advent in its traditional sense—as a period of "quiet reflection and eager anticipation for the birth of Christ" rather than a time to buy and consume.

You know you live in Phoenix when you drive a mile around a parking lot looking for a shady spot — even in the dead of winter.