Arctic Quotes - Page 5

• that arctic blast you're feeling? it's the chill coming off my cold shoulder

  Michele Jaffe

  Feelings, Cold, Chill

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• At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the mountain like ermine, fabulous feather- light powder coaxing me to flee the confines of my room, brave the mostly plowed road up to the closest ski resort. To run from the cloying silence connected Mom and Dad, into encompassing stillness far away from city dirt and noise Far above suburban gridlock. Far beyond the grasp of home.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Mom, Running, Dad

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• Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these broken floes drift toward the morning light of remembrance.

  Tan Twan Eng

  Morning, Memories, Sleep

  Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.8, Canongate Books

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• We had an electrical fault about 500 miles into the trip and lost more than half our fuel. We had a fire on the roof. And missed Los Angeles by 3,500 miles at the end of the trip and ending up in the arctic in a snowstorm.

  Richard Branson

  Adventure, Fire, Half

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• Drilling in the Refuge is completely unnecessary when we could improve the average fuel economy of cars, minivans and SUV's by just 3 miles a gallon and save more oil within 10 years than we could ever produce from the Arctic Refuge.

  Ed Markey

  Oil, Average, Years

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• ...Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica, and other glaciers? Was it because the heat was buried in the ocean and sequestered, perhaps well below the surface?...Perhaps all of these things are going on?

  Kevin E. Trenberth

  Ocean, Ice, Sea

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• Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth. Arctic sea ice is near all-time record lows. Record floods from Pakistan to Queensland to the Mississippi basin; record drought from the steppes of Russia to the plains of Texas...This is what climate change looks like in its early stages.

  Bill McKibben

  Russia, Texas, Years

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• According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.

  George Will

  Illinois, Ice, Sea

  "Dark Green Doomsayers". www.washingtonpost.com. February 15, 2009.

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• A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water vapor than cold, the atmosphere over the oceans is a shocking five percent wetter, loading the dice for devastating floods.

  Bill McKibben

  Summer, Ocean, Air

  "Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibben, www.rollingstone.com. July 19, 2012.

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• The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Years, Three, Melting

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• I have long been something of a climate-change sceptic, but my views in recent years have shifted. For me, the most convincing evidence that something worrying is going on lies right here in the Arctic.

  Michael Hanlon

  Lying, Views, Years

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• Temperature measurements in the arctic suggest that it was just as warm there in the 1930's...before most greenhouse gas emissions. Don't you ever wonder whether sea ice concentrations back then were low, too?

  Roy Spencer

  Ice, Sea, Measurement

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• We can look forward to the day when the free flow of trade, from the southern reaches of Tierra del Fuego to the northern outposts of the Arctic Circle, unites the people of the Western Hemisphere in a bond of mutually beneficial exchange, when all borders become what the U.S.-Canadian border so long has been: a meeting place, rather than a dividing line.

  Ronald Reagan

  Circles, Long, People

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I love the Arctic Monkeys . Who doesn't? I'd love to see them live, but haven't got round to it yet. I never get to see bands because I'm never in the same town for more than two seconds.

  Jack White

  Two, Band, Monkeys

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• Opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling is bad public policy that has no place in the budget process,. The Budget Committee needs to leave drilling in the Arctic Refuge behind and focus on crafting this year's budget package.

  Russ Feingold

  Years, Oil, Opening Up

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• Arctic-dwelling Eskimos have no choice but to eat large amounts of meat and animal fat. But let's get our facts straight: according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Eskimos also have the highest incidences of heart disease and osteoporosis in the world and, in general, short life spans. Perhaps that is something to consider when we are faced with the choice of what to eat for dinner and unlike Eskimos most of us do have choices.

  Sharon Gannon

  Short Life, Heart, Animal

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• To wear the arctic fox you have to kill it.

  Marianne Moore

  Foxes

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.193, Penguin

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• Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

  Goldwin Smith

  Political, Ottawa, Royal

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• Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Ivory, White, Snow

  "The Defendant". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We see huge changes in the planet's hydrology already, the cycles of drought and flood both amped up because warm air holds more water vapor than cold. These things are happening with a one-degree increase and going to two degrees won't be twice as bad, the increase in damage won't be linear, it most certainly will be exponential. So it was precisely the wrong moment to elect Trump.

  Bill McKibben

  Summer, Ice, Sea

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic circle, or on a Windsor chair by the side of the River Lea in the so-called temperate zone, or you may squat in a canoe on an equatorial river, with the surrounding atmosphere forty-five percent mosquito, and if you are fishing you will enjoy yourself.

  Mary Kingsley

  Ice, Fishing, Circles

  Mary Kingsley (2013). “West African Studies”, p.75, Routledge

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• I dream of diving in two places where I have not been yet. One is Antarctica, because of its crystal clear waters and amazing fauna, in addition to the ice cathedrals. The other is the Arctic, where I'd like to see the northernmost kelp forests.

  Enric Sala

  Dream, Ice, Two

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• Despite a lifetime of service to the cause of sexual liberation, I have never caught venereal disease, which makes me feel rather like an Arctic explorer who has never had frostbite.

  Germaine Greer

  Funny, Sex, Humor

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• Much of the attention on oceans has portrayed oceans as a villain. Warm water strengthened Hurricane Katrina that pounded Louisiana. Rising sea level will flood islands and coastal areas. Or, we're talking about new opportunities like a new shipping lane in the Arctic because of melting sea ice. These may be the obvious problems, but they're probably not the biggest ones.

  Mark Powell

  Ocean, Opportunity, Talking

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• People might say, What's so great about the Arctic Monkeys? I've never even seen them. Well, you've never seen God either. You're gonna tell me he's not awesome?

  Christian Finnegan

  People, Monkeys, Might

  "Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins". TV Series, www.imdb.com.

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