#climate

As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music. ↗

— Lamar Alexander

#climates #could #different #governor #i

Man steps on an ant when he can't catch the fly. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#economic-collapse #environmentalism #extinction #gaede #globalization

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. ↗

— Mark Twain

#climate #company #go #heaven #hell

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#board #chess #climate #could #country

Men argue. Nature acts. ↗

— Voltaire

#man #nature #change

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

I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#back #belong #brooklyn #climate #club

Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits. ↗

— Piers Corbyn

#computer #forecasting #indeed #limits #modelling