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"Global warming will very probably unleash unstoppable planetary forces. And they will not be gradual. The history of our planet’s climate s ...
"'Coal = Jobs.' Yes, for lung doctors."—Thomas Friedman, New York Times Columnist
Think of weather as a large die, with the number 6 signifying a violent storm. If you add dots to change the "1" to a "6," you've doubled y ...
"Mother Nature is just chemistry, biology and physics. That's all she is. You cannot sweet-talk her. You cannot spin her. You cannot tell he ...
"When it comes to climate change, true skepticism is two-sided. One-sided skepticism is no skepticism at all." —Michael Mann. ...
For those who spend little time in greenhouses, perhaps we should call it "The Parked Car Effect." We all know what happens when you park ...
"I am a pilot. I love flying in bad weather because you must trust the cockpit instruments. Up here, if you do not accept science, you die.— ...
Saying 'I hate government regulation, therefore global warming is a hoax,' is akin to saying 'I hate shots, therefore the flu doesn't exist. ...
"2010 was the hottest and wettest -- don't Google that phrase, by the way -- year on record."—Bill Maher
"Our children and grandchildren are going to be mad at us for burning all this oil. It took the Earth 500 million years to create the stuff ...
Think of hurricanes as a fire in a fireplace. Global warming isn't the spark but it is that extra log we are throwing onto that fire.
All scientists are skeptics. The motto of UK's 350-year-old Royal Society is 'Nullius in verba,' Latin for "On the words of no one" or "tak ...
"The climate system is an angry beast, and we're poking it with sticks."
— Walter Broecker, the climate science pioneer who unco ...
Claiming that 'Earth isn't warming, because 2008 was cooler than 1998' is like saying 'Spring isn't happening, because April 15th was cooler ...
"When I was six years old, there were conflicting theories about how babies were born. Somebody said a stork brought them. Another guy said ...
"It is not right to destroy the world God has given us. He created everything; as the Bible says, 'The God who made the world and everythin ...
In earth's past, CO2 rise lagged temperature, so CO2 can't possibly cause global warming? This is like saying "'I saw a chicken lay an eg ...
China has succeeded in growing its economy and lifting more people out of poverty, while reducing its CO2 emissions per unit of GDP (carbon ...
Think of CO2 in the atmosphere as water in a bathtub. If you partly open the drain and run the tap at the same rate, the water level stays ...
If the Arctic is warming, why was the winter of 2010 so cold?
The so-called Warm Arctic-Cold Continent Pattern is "kind of like le ...
"Do you consult your dentist about your heart condition? In science, as in any area, reputations are based on knowledge and expertise in ...
It will take generations to decarbonise the world's economies. When it's over for us, the next generation will have to pick up the baton and ...
Who amongst us hasn't delayed opening a bill or bank statement, because we want to postpone reading the unpleasant news?
The Dinosaur Economy is an energy intense economy that relies primarily on fossil fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas that are derived f ...
At its 1857 peak, New England whaling industry employed over 10,000 men and a huge part of America's economy. Yet, no one wants a return of ...
"We're driving in a car with bad brakes in a fog and heaing for a cliff. We know for sure now that the cliff is out there, we just don't ...
"Think of Earth's climate as a drunk: When left alone, it sits; when forced to move, it staggers." —Dr Richard Alley.
While it's hard to know how much global warming contributes to any single weather event, science tells us that we will see more and more ext ...
Take two breaths. Your second breath comes from phytoplankton, who produce 1/2 the world's oxygen. One more reason to protect oceans.
Saying "climate change happened naturally in the past, and therefore human's can't cause it" is like saying "forest fires occurred naturally ...
"We're headed toward this cliff, and instead of taking our foot off the gas we're stepping on the pedal."—Scott Mandia.
"Nature favours those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive" — James Lovelock
"If you like buying oil from the Saudis, you'll love buying solar from the Chinese!"— Thomas Friedman
"If you don't know how to keep poisons out of somebody's water, or their air, how can you say you love your neighbor?" —Christian Environmen ...
In climate communication, "We need to stop being Chicken Little and start being The Little Engine That Could." Less of 'the sky is falling ...
The climate system is like a rowboat. It has two stable states. "You can tip and then you’ll just go back. You tip it and just go back ...
”Destroying a tropical rainforest and other species-rich ecosystems is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner."— Edward ...
The formula for false media balance is: Add one truth plus one lie, then divide by two.
Variation: Accuracy is not achieved ...
The most credible sources are the "grunts" working on the front lines of research -- drilling the ice cores, taking the measurements, crunch ...
"It's 3:23 in the morning, and I'm awake
because my great, great, grandchildren won't let me sleep.
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"Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating nor ...
"Over Earth’s history, ocean life has recovered from numerous sudden extinction episodes by adaptation and evolution of new species, but the ...
"Some say, 'Climate is always changing due to natural cycles. So it can't be us doing it.' That's like saying 'People die from natural cau ...
"Just as steroids make the baseball player stronger and increase his chances of hitting home runs, greenhouse gases are the steroids of the ...
"Even small rises in sea level will have very big impact in some places, as storm surges hit coasts. If you raise the floor of a basketball ...
"...History will not judge us by how much economic growth we achieve in the immediate years ahead, nor by how much we expand material consum ...
"If 98 doctors say my son is ill and needs medication and two say, 'No, he doesn't, he is fine,' I will go with the ninety-seven. It's commo ...
Some skeptics view climate science as a house of cards. You pull one card from the bottom and the whole thing collapses. But science is mo ...
"The evidence for climate change is not a house of cards, where you take one piece out and the whole theory falls apart. It's more like a mo ...
"Man has been appointed as a steward for the management of God's property, and ultimately he will give account of his stewardship." (Luke 16 ...
A hundred years from now, looking back, the only question that will appear important about the historical moment in which we now live is the ...
Just thermometers, indicating since the 1880 that the Earth is warming due to climate change.
If you thicken Earth's CO2 blanket, the planet gets warmer.
Variation: Add more blankets at night, and you overheat. Add more ...
"...I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait 'til oil and coal run out before we t ...
A school bus goes up a hill, then down. The hilltop is the tipping point. Earth is the bus, but with no driver, just quarreling teenagers, ...
Mitigation costs too much? This is like saying 'fixing the dodgy brakes on my car costs too much, so I'm going to ignore the problem.' ...
"People used to think the world was flat. Then others said it was a perfect sphere. Once we could accurately measure, it turns out they are ...
The Marines are quietly leading the way on efficiency and renewables.
"Our priority is to save lives by reducing the number of Marines ...
Renewables too expensive? Navy Secy. Mabus: "Every new technology is more expensive. What if we hadn’t started using computers because the ...
"I am a conservative Republican...I do not believe in wasting things...I do not believe in wasting natural resources or any resources that w ...
"It is the nature of the human species to reject what is true but unpleasant, and to embrace what is obviously false but comforting."
"Climate is percentage of long underwear vs. shorts in your closest. Weather is deciding to wear long underwear or shorts today."
"...Climate change could have significant geopolitical impacts around the world, contributing to poverty, environmental degradation, and the ...
"Rising greenhouse gas emissions pose significant risks to society and ecosystems." — Exxon Mobil.
The USAF pioneered research on heat-trapping properties of CO2. "The Air Force didn't set out to study global warming. They just wanted th ...
The National Academy of Sciences is the "Supreme Court" for science. Honest Abe created it 150 years ago to summarize "state of the art" sc ...
"It’s all a game of odds. We’ve never been here before. We just know two things: one, the CO2 we put into the atmosphere stays there for man ...
"What are going to develop that replaces Iowa?" — Bill McKibben responding to a conservative who thinks we can adapt to climate change.