Arctic Quotes - Page 5

• Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.

  David Suzuki

  Mountain Ranges, Years, Brain

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• The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.

  Bill Kurtis

  Summer, Years, Ice

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

  Michele Jaffe

  Feelings, Cold, Chill

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

  Goldwin Smith

  Political, Ottawa, Royal

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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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• 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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• It was some UN agency that issued a report saying we're beyond the point of return here. And there was a picture of a polar bear on a little, tiny block of ice, which is a fraudulent - there are more polar bears than ever. The arctic ice caps are not melting. There's so much garbage out there.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Block, Agency, Ice

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I've seen some glaciers in the world which have been, which are just turquoise blue blue glaciers up in the Arctic. It's tragic to think that because of climate change, because of man's actions, they're melting away.

  Lewis Pugh

  Men, Thinking, Blue

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• In terms of fiction, there are a number of writers who are thinking about the future of the environment whose work complements mine. Kim Stanley Robinson's novel 2312 is a great example, as is Tobias Buckell's novel Arctic Rising.

  Annalee Newitz

  Thinking, Numbers, Example

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

  Jeff Goodell

  Land, America, Wildlife

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• I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing!

  Alan Green

  Wind, Freezing, Knows

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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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