Quotes About Climate

Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.

The tractor must always be used as an aid to nature, not as a driver of nature. The tractor must work in harmony with the climate, and the fertility of the land, and the humble spirit of the farmers.

describing any particular day in Manaus as staggeringly hot and humid is a little like describing one particular sloth as exceptionally upside down. It's rarely anything else.

Judge Barnett always said A/C is for people who don't have the patience to be hot.

A/C is for people who don't have the patience to be hot.

So chalk up one plus for Nordic weather: It helped you get where you were going a whole lot faster.

and the night temperature had not dipped below eighty,

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.

even if all fossil fuel runs out (or we decide to leave it in the ground so as not to fry the planet), there is no conceivable shortage of nuclear fuel to burn in fast reactors.

In other words, we are losing the war on carbon precisely because we are winning the war on poverty.

It is ironic but nonetheless true that for developing countries the best way to protect against the future effects of climate change is currently to burn more fossil fuels and thereby accelerate their economic development.

A new world With five degrees of global warming, an entirely new planet is coming into being-one largely unrecognisable from the Earth we know today. The

In passato l'apocalisse, dal punto di vista religioso ma anche secolare, è sempre stata considerata un evento singolo improvviso, un flash accecante dal cielo, una bomba nucleare. Oggi, pensiamo al cambiamento climatico, la fine dei tempi appare più come una lenta dissoluzione. E questo fa sì che non abbiamo il paradigma mitologico per darle un senso, non sappiamo come pensarla, come darle una forma.

Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Everybody knows what California smog is - that's fog with the vitamins removed.

We haven't had any more rain since it stopped raining.

We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today – climate change – into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.

Energy Policy will be and should be driven by environmental policy in the future.

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

For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.

It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future