Quotes About Global

Wasn't that how people in other countries viewed all American people—with their innocence, their Disney, their inability to drive stick shift? With the way they were protected—the way I was protected—from so much of the "reality" that happened elsewhere?

Every black man under the sun are brothers. I don't care if he lives in America, or in Asia or Africa, or in the Isles of the Pacific or the Gulf.

The more people this can spread to, the more chance we have to build a global platform that allows us to reach out to the children all over the world to breath in the light and blow out the darkness,"

I've had indications that there are colonies at work in the world that I cannot even locate, let alone control. And some of them are doing damage.

Tourism cannot be outsourced." Philippe Maud'hui of ATOUT France made that declaration in his crowded office on the Place de Catalogne, surrounded by stacks of documents and data showing how much tourism contributes to the economy and how. It is so obvious it was startling.

The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.

The permafrost is still warmest at the very bottom, but instead of being coldest at the top, it is coldest somewhere in the middle, and warmer again toward the surface. This is a sign—and an unambiguous one—that the climate is heating up.

The size of the greenhouse forcing is estimated, at this point, to be 2.5 w/m2. A miniature Christmas light gives off about four tenths of a watt of energy, mostly in the form of heat, so that, in effect (as Sophie supposedly explained to Connor), we have covered the earth with tiny bulbs, six for every square meter. These bulbs are burning twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, year in and year out.

To stay under 2°C, global emissions would have to fall nearly to zero within the next several decades. To stave off 1.5°C, they'd have to drop most of the way toward zero within a single decade. This would entail, for starters: revamping agricultural systems, transforming manufacturing, scrapping gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles, and replacing most of the world's power plants.

Each year, we throw up another nine billion tons

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

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

One theory has it that Bd was moved around the globe with shipments of African clawed frogs, which were used in the nineteen-fifties and sixties in pregnancy tests. (Female African clawed frogs, when injected with the urine of a pregnant woman, lay eggs within a few hours.)

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

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.

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

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

Another expert, David Jablonski, characterizes mass extinctions as "substantial biodiversity losses" that occur rapidly and are "global in extent.

To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.

It was Lenin, not Stalin, who turned his utopian dream of a new Communist global order into a living nightmare.

Wilson was raising America up as the new global colossus based on its moral authority as a universal nation.

Zo zal het straks dus zijn, …, in vogelvlucht ene continent te kunnen oversteken, te zien hoe het ene land na het andere onder je voorbijtrekt, over alle grenzen heen verbroedering te kunnen brengen en begrip.

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.