#climate

China has adopted and is implementing its national climate change program. This includes mandatory national targets for reducing energy intensity and discharge of major pollutants and increasing forest coverage and the share of renewable energy for the period of 2005 through 2010. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#change #china #climate #climate change #coverage

Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth. Species adjust or go extinct, and both have happened. For life-forms with our kinds of cells—eukaryotic, the kind with distinct organelles—the average existence of a species is about 1 million years, and, on average, one species goes extinct a year, at least of the species we have named and know, including those we know only from fossil records." -Dan Botkin, excerpt from THE MOON IN THE NAUTILUS SHELL. Read the full excerpt from Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/art... ↗

— Daniel Botkin

#environmental-conservation #extinction #change

Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year. ↗

— James Lovelock

#change #changing #climate #geological #happen

It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#current #entertainment #escapism #film #fun

There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#change #climate #climate change #currently #doubtless

It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#back #change #changing #climate #climate change

I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners. ↗

— John H. Speke

#afterwards #again #climate #ever #foreigners

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#every #generates #get #going #novel

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#actually #agree #climate #like #more

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur. ↗

— William Bartram

#attention #climates #different #distinctions #explore