Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes About Global Warming

Quotes about: Global Warming

• People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can feel in the course of their daily lives, it will be too late to prevent much larger, potentially catastrophic changes.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Motivational, People, Focus

  "A Planetary Problem". Interview with Amy Davidson, www.newyorker.com. April 25, 2005.

• As best as can be determined, the world is now warmer than it has been at any point in the last two millennia, and, if current trends continue, by the end of the century it will likely be hotter than at any point in the last two million years.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Years, Two, World

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2012). “Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change - Is Time Running Out?”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever since. If the birthers are more evidently kooky than the global-warming "skeptics" or the death-panellers or the supply-siders or the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they are, in their fundamental disregard for the facts, actually mainstream.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Cutting, Fundamentals, Facts

  "The Things People Say" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. November 2, 2009.

• No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Matter, Global Warming, Trump

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• One of the reasons that people, many people, many environmentalists are critical of President [Barack] Obama's policies towards global warming is on the one hand he says the right things and he says he's committed to trying to reduce our current emissions.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Hands, People, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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