Temperature Quotes - Page 8

• ...the possibility of circular reasoning arises-that is, using the temperature record to derive a key input to climate models that are then tested against the temperature record.

  Theodore Wilbur Anderson

  Keys, Input, Energy

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• The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.

  Al Gore

  Years, Energy, Records

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• The Earth is warming but physical evidence from around the world tells us that human-emitted carbon dioxide has played only a minor role in it. Instead, the mild warming seems to be part of a natural 1,500-year climate cycle (plus or minus 500 years) that goes back at least one million years.

  Fred Singer

  Years, Energy, Climate

  Fred Singer, Fred S. Singer, Dennis Avery (2006). “Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years”, p.9, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• ...it is quite obvious that the temperature change during the last 100 years or so includes significant natural changes, both the linear change and fluctuations. It is very puzzling that the IPCC reports state that it is mostly due to the greenhouse effect.

  Syun-Ichi Akasofu

  Years, Energy, Lasts

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• And then you see right away it may well happen that you enter a decade or maybe even two, when the temperature cools relative to the present level...I'm definitely not one of the skeptics...However, we have to ask the nasty questions ourselves, or some other people will do it.

  Mojib Latif

  Two, People, Energy

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• Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages to rise by as much as nine degrees Fahrenheit sometime after the year 2000.

  Carl Sagan

  Average, Years, Atmosphere

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• Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright, drifting crystals, as being among the most amazing sights they saw on an entire voyage.

  Gene Cernan

  Space, Clouds, Sight

  "This much I know". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.

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• I very much consider the Internet a garden, and I'm a gardener, and I plant things in it and I work within the framework of the soil, the seasons, the climate, and the temperature, to produce plants.

  Mark Pesce

  Garden, Climate, Soil

  "An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version". hyperreal.org.

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• Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Information, Way, Pressure

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.98, Harvard University Press

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• Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.

  John Holdren

  Moisture, Soil, Results

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• Who will argue that 98.6 Farenheit is the right temperature for man? As for me, I decline to do it. It may be that we are all actually freezing hence the pervading stupidity of mankind. At 110 or 115 degrees even archbishops might be intelligent.

  H. L. Mencken

  Intelligent, Men, Stupidity

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.213, Knopf

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• The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.

  John Updike

  Emotional, Agreement, Stories

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• Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Writing, Successful, Light

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• This warning from the New York City Department of Health Fraud: Be suspicious of any doctor who tries to take your temperature with his finger.

  David Letterman

  New York, Doctors, Cities

  David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

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• Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over hands yielded to a lover, all the fevers of the flesh and the languors of tenderness thus could not be separated from the balconies of great châteaux filled with idle amusements, a boudoir with silk blinds, a good thick carpet, full of pots of flowers, and a bed raised on a dais, nor from the sparkle of precious stones and shoulder knots on servants' livery.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Love, Flower, Hands

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• Sometimes I take a temperature of things just because everyone else does. Especially when I'm doing a play. I want to know what people are thinking, positive or negative.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Thinking, Play, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Nowadays, one of the churches of Tlön maintains platonically that such and such a pain, such and such a greenish-yellow colour, such and such a temperature, such and such a sound, etc., make up the only reality there is. All men, in the climactic instant of coitus, are the same man. All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Pain, Reality, Men

  "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1940.

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• Back in 2005, when I was Christopher Eccleston, we saw one of the largest increases on record, of CO2 in the atmosphere. Unless we keep the rise in global temperature to under 2 degrees, by the time I'm Daniel Radcliffe or wee Jimmy Crankie, I won't be able to save the planet. I won't be here to help you -- well I might, but I'll be that bloke who won Any Dream Will Do.

  David Tennant

  Dream, Atmosphere, Degrees

  Live Earth concert, 2007.

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• There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.

  Buck Martinez

  Average, Years, People

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• The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title “Blue Planet in Green Shackles.”

  Vaclav Klaus

  Book, Blue, Green

  "DECKER: 5 Questions with President Vaclav Klaus". Interview with Brett M. Decker, www.washingtontimes.com. September 25, 2012.

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• It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the "cooler," and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.

  Upton Sinclair

  Men, Cells, Mind

  Upton Sinclair “100%: The Story of a Patriot”, Lulu.com

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• Can you let your son's body become the same temperature as your son's head before you turn this into a political campaign against the president? Could you do that?

  Glenn Beck

  Son, Political, President

  "The Glenn Beck Program", May 14, 2004.

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• I am ready to have dialogue with the concerned parties once the nation is calm and the political temperatures are lowered enough for constructive and productive engagement.

  Mwai Kibaki

  Party, Political, Engagement

  "Kibaki 'Open to Opposition Talks'". news.bbc.co.uk. January 03, 2008.

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• The rise of the Earth's temperature, causing sea level increases that could add up to one foot over the next 30 years, threatens the very existence of New Orleans.

  Ray Nagin

  New Orleans, Years, Sea

  Archived press release, friendsoftheearth.uk. September 01, 2005.

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• Mathematical analysis is as extensive as nature itself; it defines all perceptible relations, measures times, spaces, forces, temperatures:;; this difficult science is formed slowly, but it preserves every principle which it has once acquired; it grows and strengthens itself incessantly in the midst of the many variations and errors of the human mind. It's chief attribute is clearness; it has no marks to express confused notations. It brings together phenomena the most diverse, and discovers the hidden analogies which unite them.

  Joseph Fourier

  Confused, Errors, Space

  Joseph Fourier (2007). “The Analytical Theory of Heat”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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