Climate Quotes - Page 15

• [Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.

  Emma Thompson

  Family, Leadership, Wisdom

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• Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us - that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt themselves well, perhaps better than we do, to changing world conditions - they enlarge their domain, shift their hold on our nerves, and, dispossessed of one habitat, set up house in another. The universal battiness of our century looks like providing them with a propitious climate.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  House, World, May

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• Thus evidence that contradicts the global warming theory, climate Chicken Littles enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every permutation in weather patterns — warm or cold — is said to be a consequence of that warming or proof of it.

  Ilana Mercer

  Weather, Patterns, Global Warming

  "Reincarnation of the Reds". www.wnd.com. December 29, 2006.

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• If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Country, House, Design

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VI, Chapter I, Section 1), circa 15 BC.

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• Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving Up, Rain, Clouds

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.217, Modern Library

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• No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.

  John Gabriel Stedman

  Race, People, Earth

  John Gabriel Stedman (1806). “Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America”, p.380, Рипол Классик

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• Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Animal, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.187, Penguin

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• Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow. We are nothing but what we derive from the air we breathe, the climate we inhabit, the government we obey, the system of religion we profess, and the nature of our employment.

  J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

  Inspirational, Men, Air

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• When I first came to Washington in the 1960s, even at the height of the Vietnam War, until the end there in '68 there was a certain climate of cooperation. And then in the late sixties and in through the seventies, politics began getting more mean. And then from the eighties on it seemed to be institutionalized, this personal attack business. And I just hate it.

  William J. Clinton

  War, Hate, Mean

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• My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world; I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeinga Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Responsibility, Roots, Perception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.485

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• Here's the truth: even if countries like the United States curb our emissions, if growing countries like India - with soaring energy needs - don't also embrace cleaner fuels, then we don't stand a chance against climate change.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Country, Energy

  "As Obama departs India, a push for reform" by Kevin Liptak, www.cnn.com. January 27, 2015.

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• Those people on the other side, they will answer any question about climate change by saying, 'I’m not a scientist.' Well, I’m not a scientist either. I’m just a grandmother with two eyes and a brain.

  Hillary Clinton

  Eye, Grandmother, Two

  "Hillary Clinton Focuses On Renewable Energy In Climate Change Plan" by Marina Fang, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2015.

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• The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion; but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Believe, Technology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.265, Penguin

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• You are part of the first generation of officers to begin your service in a world where the effects of climate change are so clearly upon us. Climate change will shape how every one of our services plan, operate, train, equip, and protect their infrastructure, today and for the long-term.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Long, Generations

  "In Coast Guard commencement address, Obama buoys climate change" by Allie Malloy and Kristen Holmes, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2015.

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• There are folks who will equivocate. They'll say, 'You know, I'm not a scientist.' Well, I'm not either. But the best scientists in the world know that climate change is happening.

  Barack Obama

  Change, World, Scientist

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• I'm not a specialist in the science but I have followed it fairly closely and it seems to me that there is among the experts a clear consensus that potential climate change is something to worry about.

  Martin Rees

  Worry, Experts, Clear

  "Lord Martin Rees, eminent British scientist". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 28, 2010.

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• I don't feel passionately about politics, i'm not a political person. Is it easy for me to get fired up about someone's position on climate change? No, it's not. On most of these issues, I can see both sides.

  Rachel Maddow

  Change, Issues, Political

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• If there is anything so romantic as that castle-palace-fortress of Monaco I have not seen it. If there is anything more deliciousthan the lovely terraces and villas of Monte Carlo I do not wish to see them. There is nothing beyond the semi-tropical vegetation, the projecting promontories into the Mediterranean, the all-embracing sweep of the ocean, the olive groves, and the enchanting climate! One gets tired of the word beautiful.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Beautiful, Ocean, Tired

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• The people who are abroad are all those that have no religion, neither one based on speculation nor one received by tradition. Such are the extreme Turks that wander about in the north, the Kushites who live in the south, and those in our country who are like these. I consider these as irrational beings, and not as human beings; they are below mankind, but above monkeys, since they have the form and shape of man, and a mental faculty above that of the monkey.

  Maimonides

  Country, Religious, Animal

  Moses Maimonides (1961). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.384, Courier Corporation

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• Many scales of climate change are in fact natural, from the slow tectonic scale, to the fast changes embedded within glacial and interglacial times, to the even more dramatic changes that characterize a switch from glacial to interglacial. So why worry about global warming, which is just one more scale of climate change? The problem is that global warming is essentially off the scale of normal in two ways: the rate at which this climate change is taking place, and how different the "new" climate is compared to what came before.

  Anthony D. Barnosky

  Two, Worry, Way

  Anthony D. Barnosky (2010). “Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming”, p.27, Island Press

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• This is an opportunity, I believe, for the Port and all of us to make a bold statement about how oil companies contribute to climate change, oil spills and other environmental disasters and reject this short-term lease.

  Ed Murray

  Change, Opportunity, Oil

  "Mayor: Port needs new permit to host Shell oil-drilling fleet" by Daniel Beekman, www.seattletimes.com. May 4, 2015.

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• Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

  Jose Rizal

  Doe, Way

  "The Philippines: a Century Hence". Book by José Rizal, archive.org. 1912.

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• Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change?

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Change, Reality, Problem

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.41, CUA Press

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• Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.

  Gina McCarthy

  Change, Threat, Our Time

  "EPA boss: Climate change could kill thousands". www.cnn.com. June 22, 2015.

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• One of the drivers of displacement and potential conflict over the next 10 to 20 years will be climate (change) - resource scarcity, climate change is going to compound the cocktail that's driving war and displacement.

  Ed Miliband

  Change, War, Years

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