“Within a few decades...the United States might get 30% of its electricity from sunshine.” Quote by Christopher Flavin
“We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.” IfsActionEnergyEnvironmentPolicyPoliticianImpactClimate ChangeMakersConcreteHighlightsPolicy Makers Author:Murari Lal Sharma
“We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information on the population and the environment, and appropriate contraception for everyone (and by their own example), doctors should help bring family size into the arena of environmental ethics, analogous to avoiding patio heaters and high carbon cars.” PeopleShouldHelpingEnergyEnvironmentCarInformationEthicsDoctorsPressureEnvironmentalClimate ChangeSizePopulationAppropriateProvidingCarbonAvoidingArenaContraceptionOverpopulation Author:John Guillebaud
“I wonder what sentences judges might hand down at future international criminal tribunals on those who will be partially but directly responsible for millions of deaths from starvation, famine, and disease in the decades ahead.” HandsMightScienceEnergyWonderMillionsEnvironmentJudgingDiseaseResponsibleClimate ChangeInternationalSentencesDecadesCriminalsStarvationFamineTribunals Author:Mark Lynas
“Man-made global warming was a potential serious threat, and NASA wanted Congress to fund new satellites to study the problem. It was a team effort to get that accomplished.” MenMadeProblemWantedEnergyEffortStudyEnvironmentTeamSeriousThreatClimate ChangeCongressAccomplishedGlobal WarmingFundFundingNasaSatellitesTeam Effort Author:Roy Spencer
“The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann...for the estimation of temperature from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors, unjustifiable truncation or extrapolation of source data, obsolete data, geographical location errors, incorrect calculation of principal components and other quality control defects.” PastUsedEnergyQualityEnvironmentSourceErrorsClimateClimate ChangeDataPrincipalLocationDefectsComponentsTemperatureCalculationsObsoleteEstimationProxyQuality Control Author:Steve McIntyre
“To my knowledge, not a single scientist at the Hurricane Research Division, the National Hurricane Center, or the Joint Typhoon Warning Center believes...that there is any measurable impact on hurricane numbers or activity from global warming.” BelieveEnergyNumbersEnvironmentActivityResearchScientistImpactClimate ChangeWeatherGlobal WarmingDivisionWarningFloodJointsHurricanesDroughtTyphoons Author:Stanley B. Goldenberg
“Weather Panic! This is the New Normal (and We're Hopelessly Unprepared)” EnergyEnvironmentNormalClimate ChangeWeatherPanicFloodDroughtUnpreparedNew Normal Author:Sharon Begley
“I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.” MeanSchoolGirlPopular SongCindyPopular Girl Author:Cindy Crawford
“It is well known that strong to violent tornado activity in the US has decreased markedly since statistics began in the 1950s, which has also been a period of average warming. So, if anything, global warming causes FEWER tornado outbreaks...not more. In other words, more violent tornados would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling,' not 'global warming.'” IfsWellsEnergyStrongCausesKnownEnvironmentPeriodsActivityClimate ChangeAverageViolentWeatherGlobal WarmingStatisticsFewerFloodWell KnownDroughtTornadoesCoolingOutbreaks Author:Roy Spencer
“The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the "little ice age"...In a time period when the reasons for changes in weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patterns. 'Witches' became target for blame because there was an existing cultural framework that both allowed their persecution and suggested that they could control the weather.” PeopleLittlesReasonAgeFacesEnergyKnownEnvironmentMysteryPeriodsBlameClimate ChangeAveragePatternsActiveTrialsWeatherIceTargetWitchFloodPersecutionFrameworkTemperatureWitchcraftDroughtScapegoatIce AgeTime Periods Author:Emily Oster