Quotes About Climate

With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change (2007).

We finesse climate, or climate finesses us.

In particular, conservatives sensed that liberals had undermined traditional values. This climate was ripe for a politics that celebrated a nostalgic ideal of the home.

She was back in western Washington state, where rain was so prevalent that a day of sunshine was the lead story on the local news.

One cannot have an honest discussion about the potential of nuclear power without fully acknowledging the ravages of the Hanford project. This would be tantamount to debating the future of our dying oceans without bringing up the topic of climate change.

The dampness and the rain are hastening the destruction of these and many other manuscripts," Haidara told me. "They should be returned to Timbuktu as quickly as possible," The drier air in Timbuktu acted as a kind of safeguard against fungal rot, though the arid climate of his hometown was also deleterious over time, causing unprotected pages to grow brittle and fall apart. " We have begun to see... mold, mildew, and fungus on paper and also on leather bindings.

If you really want me to give up my car or my air conditioner, you'd better prove to me first that the earth would otherwise be uninhabitable, Dr. Lave says. Me is you, I presume, whereas you refers to them. You as in me—that is, me, me, me—certainly strike a hard bargain. Uninhabitable the world has to get before you rein in your requirements

Bueno, eso también. Vamos a ver, ¿tierra fría o tierra caliente?»

What the food industry should be talking about? Climate change. It should be talking about the industrialization of food. It should be talking about how are we gonna feed the kids at school.

We must not let the response to the coronavirus crisis make the climate and inequality crises even worse.

Everything from the infrastructure we build to the products we use must now be aimed squarely at building a zero-carbon world.

Climate change is already upon us, and its effects are being felt with increasing intensity.

The issue for me is American competitiveness, and how do we best create a climate here that allows international capital to come to these shores to create jobs.

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter

No matter what the climate is, what the troubles are, what the difficulties are, there is joy for the child of God, because joy is produced supernaturally by the Holy Spirit in us.

If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions.

By the 1680s, Venice's canals were freezing solid in winter, something no one alive had ever witnessed.

How many of your friends know that there's a "sun inside the Sun"? Or that a bizarre, newly found zone beneath the solar surface, the tachocline, is solely responsible for its violence? Or that we just experienced the oddest solar cycle in more than two hundred years—which has apparently influenced global warming in a major way?

Starting around 1550, falling temperatures in the northern hemisphere had produced snowstorms in Portugal, flooding in Timbukto, and had destroyed centuries-old citrus groves in eastern China.

global warming

Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get." Robert A. Heinlein

How you think and feel's always linked to the lie of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even. p.498

Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.

Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.