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• Unless a price can be put on carbon emissions that is high enough to force power companies and manufacturers to reduce their fossil-fuel use, there seems to be little chance of avoiding hugely damaging temperature increases

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Carbon Emissions, Littles, Fossils

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• The evidence that climate change is happening is completely unequivocal... The later governments leave tackling climate change, the harder it will be to combat... The variation we are seeing in temperature or rainfall is double the rate of the average. That suggests that we are going to have more droughts, we are going to have more floods, we are going to have more sea surges and we are going to have more storms. These are the sort of changes that are going to affect us in quite a short timescale

  John Beddington

  Sea, Government, Average

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• CO2 emissions have been increasing, but the rise in air temperature stopped around 2001. Climate change is due in large part to naturally occurring oscillations.

  Syun-Ichi Akasofu

  Air, Climate, Global Warming

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• [W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that they are climbing far more steeply than can be accounted for by the natural oscillation of the weather ... What people (must) do is to change their behavior and their attitudes ... If we do care about our grandchildren then we have to do something, and we have to demand that our governments do something.

  David Attenborough

  Attitude, Ocean, Grandchildren

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• Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll-back of the industrial age.

  Richard Lindzen

  Age, Degrees, Generations

  "The Slow, Certain Death of the Global Warming Theory" by Alan Caruba, www.cnsnews.com. September 12, 2011.

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• Former Vice President Al Gore starring in a new documentary about global warming. I believe it's called [Leno snores]. ... The film actually features Al Gore and explores his journey on how he first got interested in temperature change. It started back when he was vice president. He noticed how the temperature would change, like whenever Bill would walk into the room, it would get warm and whenever Hillary walked into the room, it got cold.

  Jay Leno

  Believe, Journey, President

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• Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases bring crop-withering heat waves, more-destructive storms, more-intense droughts, more forest fires, and, of course, ice melting. We are crossing natural thresholds that we cannot see and violating deadlines that we do not recognize.

  Lester R. Brown

  Fall, Ice, Fire

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• For a long time, the scientists have been telling us global warming increases the temperature of the top layer in the ocean, and that causes the average hurricane to become a lot stronger. So, the fact that the ocean temperatures did go up because of global warming, because of man-made global warming, starting around in the '70s, and then we had a string of unusually strong hurricanes outside the boundaries of this multi-decadal cycle that is a real factor; there are scientists who point that out, and they're right, but we're exceeding those boundaries now.

  Al Gore

  Strong, Real, Ocean

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 13, 2006.

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• Global warming is one of those things, not like an earthquake where there's a big bang and you say, 'Oh, my God, this is really, has hit us.' It creeps up on you. ... Half a degree temperature difference from one year to the next, a little bit of rise of the ocean, a little bit of melting of the glaciers, and then all of a sudden it is too late to do something about it.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Ocean, Earthquakes, Differences

  "Schwarzenegger Explains Why He Went Green". ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com. September 2, 2006.

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• The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the equivalent of heat, its temperature would be rendered at least one thousand times greater than that of red-hot iron, and the globe on which we tread would in all probability be rendered equal in brightness to the sun itself.

  James Prescott Joule

  Science, Iron, Would Be

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• A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Air, Nurse

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.9, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Leader, Feelings

  Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

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• I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured.

  Albert Einstein

  Balance, Heat, Cold

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.5, Princeton University Press

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• I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens.

  Justin Timberlake

  Book, Black And White, Self

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• Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out... The resulting soot might well stretch over all of South Asia... It could be carried around the world... [and] the consequences could be dire. Beneath such a pall sunlight would be dimmed, temperatures lowered and droughts more frequent. Spring and summer frosts may be expected... This endangerment of the food supplies... appears to be likely enough that it should affect the war plans.

  Carl Sagan

  Summer, Spring, War

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• I think in my car somebody is playing with the pressure and the temperatures.

  Pastor Maldonado

  Thinking, Car, Pressure

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• My heart/ is whatever temperature a heart is/ in a man who doesn't believe in heaven.

  Bob Hicok

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Bob Hicok (2013). “Elegy Owed”, p.2, Copper Canyon Press

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• I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game.

  Alton Brown

  Thinking, Games, Names

  "Foodie Wannabe? Here's How To Fake It". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. October 7, 2011.

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• There's just no concept of layering a thick-sleeved sweater under a coat in L.A. A coat is more of a gesture than a necessity. You know, in case the temperature goes down to 55 degrees.

  Sloane Crosley

  Sweaters, Degrees, Coats

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• The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Impact, Atmosphere

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• We'd already lost the possibility of stopping global warming entirely. That hasn't been in the cards for a long time. The triumph of Trump probably means that we're not going to be able to stop it at the two-degree mark that the world had been aiming for. That's very bad news, mostly because the planet seems to be more sensitive than we thought to even small increases in temperature.

  Bill McKibben

  Mean, Two, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds of different things. But people never notice that warmth until after they've emerged. You don't even notice that you've been inside until it's too late for you ever to go back-- that's how perfect the temperature of that blanket is.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Years, People, Perfect

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.32, Grove Press

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• Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Independent Women, Feminist, Body

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• But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat.

  Nick Hornby

  Trouble

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• Place unopened pouch in warm water for 5-10 minutes. Unopened pouch may be laid on a warm surface. Lay unopened pouch in direct sunlight. Not much chance of that down here. Place unopened pouch inside you shirt, allow you body temperature to warm your MRE. I was surprised they left out: Place unopened pouch on ground and pee on it.

  S.A. Bodeen

  Water, Body, May

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