#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

No one has any idea what's next... the uncertainty of the business climate in America is frightening, frightening to everybody, and it's delaying the recovery. ↗

— Steve Wynn

#any #business #climate #everybody #frightening

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

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate. ↗

— Peter Singer

#collective #disaster #doing #headed #interests

This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#better #climate #constant #country #due

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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My dear colleague James Hansen, I believe, has finally gone off the deep end... The global warming 'time bomb,' 'disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity's control.' These are the words of an apocalyptic prophet, not a rational scientist. ↗

— Nicholas Drapela

#bomb #changes #climate #colleague #control

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

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

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

— Piers Corbyn

#computer #forecasting #indeed #limits #modelling