#arctic

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs. ↗

— Bob Ney

#arctic national wildlife refuge #create #good #increase #jobs

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet. ↗

— John Olver

#antarctica #attention #became #carbon #carbon dioxide

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#arctic national wildlife refuge #cannot #conscience #drilling #final

You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it. ↗

— Wade Davis

#cold #fear #freezes #key #know

Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#beautiful #before #cold #desolation #ever

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

#arctic #armed #brain #deserts #flourish

'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#almost #antarctica #around #boat #circumstances

I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places. ↗

— Robin Day

#arctic #climbed #i #lot #places

Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#am #antarctica #atm #cash #consider

I like a certain grandeur to a landscape, which both the Arctic and coastal BC have. I like it to be at all times clear that people aren't the dominant fact of a particular geography. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#both #certain #clear #coastal #dominant