Quotes About Climate

To paraphrase J. R. McNeill paraphrasing Marx, "Men make their own climate, but they do not make it just as they please.

sea ice covers just half the area it did thirty years ago

would be an unprecedented climate for an unprecedented world, where silver carp glisten under a white sky.

in the face of climatic change, even natural climatic change, human activity has created an obstacle course for the dispersal of biodiversity

generating enough heat to, in effect, broil the surface of the planet.

higher than at any other point in the last eight hundred thousand years.

In New England, 1816 became known as the "year without a summer" or "eighteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death.

Ocean acidification is sometimes referred to as global warming's "equally evil twin.

After the initial heat pulse, the world experienced a multiseason "impact winter.

On the other hand, the climate record shows that it would be a mistake to assume that change, when it comes, will come gradually. Perovich offered a comparison that he had heard from a glaciologist friend. The friend likened the climate system to a rowboat: "You can tip and then you'll just go back. You can tip it and just go back. And then you tip it and you get to the other stable state, which is upside down.

It is expected that such an increase will produce an eventual average global temperature rise of between three and a half and seven degrees Fahrenheit

A paper published in Nature by the former head of the One Tree Island Research Station, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, predicted that if current trends continue, then by around 2050 visitors to the Great Barrier Reef will arrive to find "rapidly eroding rubble banks.

by the end of this century, CO2 levels could reach a level not seen

since the Antarctic palms of the Eocene, some fifty million years ago.

By burning through coal and oil deposits, humans are putting carbon back into the air that has been sequestered for tens—in most cases hundreds—of millions of years. In the process, we are running geologic history not only in reverse but at warp speed.

If warming were held to a minimum, the team estimated that between 22 and 31 percent of the species would be "committed to extinction" by 2050. If warming were to reach what was at that point considered a likely maximum—a figure that now looks too low—by the middle of this century, between 38 and 52 percent of the species would be fated to disappear.

Under what's known as a "business as usual" emissions scenario, surface ocean pH will fall to 8.0 by the middle of this century, and it will drop to 7.8 by the century's end. At that point, the oceans will be 150 percent more acidic than they were at the start of the industrial revolution.*

Ah, si no fuera por el clima, que allí es peor, les aseguro que viviría en Londres, y no aquí —afirma Bringas—. Juro por Newton y Shakespeare que estaría en las orillas del Támesis, saludando los aires de libertad de un pueblo que supo decapitar a un rey...

Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded.

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in, where money is a little harder to come by, things continue to get expensive; gas prices are not too far from people's heads. There are more and more people. Human society's going to have real problems.

As we deal with a devastating climate crisis caused by decades of unchecked corporate greed, we need to center our children and their future.

Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.

Driven by the vision to power a greener tomorrow, Suzlon has leveraged its focus on technology to accelerate action against climate change.