Quotes About Climate

The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.

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We have raped the natural world, damming rivers and carelessly using up resources, polluting the atmosphere, and battling the nurturer, Mother Earth. Now nature fights back with a fury of natural disasters: hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, droughts, floods, and global warming. In response we fight climate change, seeking to stop it without addressing the underlying attitude that created the problem to begin with.

We wrote, "The constancy of these somewhat independent results encourages us to conclude that 21st century warming will be modest and near the low end of the IPCC TAR [Third Assessment Report] projections.

The average of the two is shown. The warming observed by the satellites since 1979 is approximately 0.25°C (0.45°F).

As Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh has said, making the transition to a plant-based diet may well be the most effective way an individual can stop climate change. Recent research suggests he is right: Few climate solutions of this magnitude lie in the hands of individuals or are as close as the dinner plate.

If cattle were their own nation, they would be the world's third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

we're now ruled by people who are willing to endanger civilization for the sake of political expediency, not to mention increased profits for their fossil-fuel friends. About

But climate change isn't just killing people; it may well kill civilization.

When he got to the shoe putting-on stage he called Hosain again. Putting on and taking off his own shoes and boots were activities at which he drew the line if there was a man available to perform these services. He had learned to draw the line in Muzzafirabad where his first CO, Colonel Gawstone, advised him never to stoop if he could help it. The climate wasn't right for it. Mrs. Gawstone had stooped to pick up a glove and keeled right over and never got up. They had buried her the next day.

it was just a version of Rimbaud in Harar: the exile, a selfish beast with modest fantasies of power, secretly enjoying a life of beer drinking and scribbling and occasional mythomania in a nice climate where there were no interruptions, such as unwelcome letters or faxes or cell phones. It was an eccentric ideal, life lived off the map.¨

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.

My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because of their attitude on climate change.

Declaring that climate is Europe's "most pressing challenge," Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, has pledged to turn all of Europe into "the first carbon neutral continent in the world.

The combination of the heat and air moisture was debilitating.

The humidity and heat combination must have been in the triple digits.

The humidity pressed in from all sides like solid walls of water.

The scientists pushing Global Warming are all in it for climate study grants. Seriously, you never realized you can judo-kill that with just four words? Show… us… the… 'grants.

The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.

Weather today is an increasing trend toward denial.

will collapse and temperatures will rise—and then the waters will. Global agricultural production will level off and then fall. What food remains will be local and not enough. And all these things will come to pass while people continue to argue about them. Until there is no more argument, because there is no more doubt.

Like the temperature of a fireplace, everything on earth is dependent on the temperature.