Quotes About Climate

Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants cannot be found...Animal flesh provides all the substances we need, both for the intensive working of our organism and for maintaining a normal temperature in cold climates.

These fools, these execs and their underlings, with their enemies' lists and Espo informers, they're creating just the sort of climate to make their worst fears come real. The prophecy fulfills itself; if we weren't talking about life and death here, it would make a grand joke!

The Gulf Stream is part of a vast global conveyor belt of moving water that has the power to change climate and alter human lives.... The Atlantic conveyor system has power equivalent to one hundred Amazon Rivers and is one of the great drivers of global climate.

Today, our ecological sits seem to have overtaken our spiritual transgressions as the cause of climatic change.

About 90 percent of the past five hundred thousand years have been colder than today, and the world's climate has been in transition from cold to warm or back again for about three quarters of that time.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

every environment has a tone.

Como si hubiésemos pasado, justamente, de un Antiguo Régimen a uno Nuevo, marcado por la irrupción multiforme de la cuestión de los climas y, cosa aún más extraña, de su vínculo con el gobierno.

Man macht sich gar nicht klar genug, dass die gesamte Politik der Gegenwart auf das Problem der Klimaleugnung fokussiert ist.

Under a sky that hasn't been blue for weeks.

water vapor is a greenhouse gas

My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.

Hard as it was to work toward nuclear reductions, it will be much tougher and more complicated to create a new global public health system, reinvent the way energy is produced and delivered, manage the massive fallout from climate change, and ensure that new technologies don't destroy our common future.

When 99% of the world's scientists agree that burning fossil fuels is adversely affecting the planet, and 10,883 out of 10,885 peer-reviewed papers confirm it, and yet a United States Senator steps on to the floor and attempts to rebut the facts by holding up a snowball, we have officially entered The Shithead Zone. But

We need to send a message to Congress and the president that we want them to take the actions that are needed to preserve climate for young people and future generations and all life on the planet.

I don't think there's any other issue out there that young people are more passionate, and more ahead in, than global warming.

I don't know much about climate change. But I'm pretty sure we better figure out what to do to lessen its impact - at least its health impact - and that's not going to happen unless you have a lot of young talent interested in these topics.

You and I can go on YouTube and learn how to fix a tractor engine or learn Farsi. Groups are using those tools to recruit young people into a climate of hatred.

I have caught some big eels in New Zealand, where the climate is very similar to Scotland. But they grow to around five feet long.

At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different?

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.

There is a triple layer of jargon when writing about climate change. You have the scientists, who are very cautious now because of the amount of climate denial. Then you have the U.N. jargon - I had to carry around a glossary of terms. It was like an alphabet soup.

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.