#climate

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #climate




I don't know that I can give a definitive answer to that, I can only say that if we create the right climate those who are producing those products will have the opportunity to move into a higher value product if changes are needed if we get this right.


John Anderson


#changes #climate #create #definitive #get

Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.


Hu Jintao


#change #climate #climate change #countries #development

The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering.


Bjorn Lomborg


#already #among #change #chief #climate

The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be harnessed to save it. . . . If the race is won, humanity can emerge in far better condition than when it entered, and with most of the diversity of life still intact.


Edward O. Wilson


#climate-change #e-o-wison #earth-changes #ecology #naturalism

Entomologist Dr. Ovid Byron speaking to television journalist, Tina, who says, re. global warming, "Scientists of course are in disagreement about whether this is happening and whether humans have a role." He replies: "The Arctic is genuinely collapsing. Scientists used to call these things the canary in the mine. What they say now is, The canary is dead. We are at the top of Niagara Falls, Tina, in a canoe. There is an image for your viewers. We got here by drifting, but we cannot turn around for a lazy paddle back when you finally stop pissing around. We have arrived at the point of an audible roar. Does it strike you as a good time to debate the existence of the falls?" p.367


Barbara Kingsolver


#climate-crisis #monarch-butterflies #change

One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood


Tim Flannery


#science #change

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.


Doris Lessing


#climates #confined #democratic #free #how

Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.


Peter Garrett


#change #climate #climate change #conducting #every

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.


Danny Glover


#because #caribbean #change #climate #climate change

If we're going to create the best business climate to create higher paying jobs and retain our young people, we're going to have to build a workforce prepared for the opportunities of the future.


John Hoeven


#build #business #climate #create #future