#climate

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

It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#changing #climate #comes #debate #empirical

We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate. ↗

— Kenneth R. Miller

#believe #climate #cool #during #ice

But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#also #australia #challenges #change #china

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

Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions. ↗

— David Suzuki

#birds #climate #communities #conditions #gardens

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today. ↗

— William Hague

#biggest #change #climate #climate change #face

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

— Penelope Lively

#every #generates #get #going #novel

Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse effect, Denver's location in the center of the country becomes a tremendous advantage. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#advantage #assuming #becomes #begin #center

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