“It is interesting to transport one's self back to the times when Astronomy began; to observe how discoveries were connected together, how errors have got mixed up with truth, have delayed the knowledge of it, and retarded its progress; and, after having followed the various epochs and traversed every climate, finally to contemplate the edifice founded on the labours of successive centuries and of various nations.” SelfTogetherScienceNationsInterestingProgressCenturyDiscoveryErrorsClimateVariousConnectedAstronomyLabourContemplatingTransportDelayedRetardedEdifice Author:Jean Sylvain Bailly
“You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?” ThinkingWorldYearsFirstsLooksGovernmentAsksEnergyGrowthNaturalCitiesWonderRecordsCenturyEvidenceResourcesClimatePopulationObviousDecadesPanicFlood21st CenturyThreatenedNatural ResourcesDroughtWorld PopulationConfluence Author:Thomas Friedman
“I see climate change as one of the driving forces in the 21st century. With modern technology and globalization, we are much more connected than ever before. The world's warehouses are now container ships.” WorldForceTechnologyModernCenturyClimateClimate ChangeConnectedDrivingShips21st CenturyGlobalizationDriving ForceContainersWarehouseModern Technology Author:David Titley
“Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.” FirstsHumanityChallengesCenturyTwentiesClimateClimate Change Author:Angela Merkel
“By the end of the third decade of this century, all of American life - politics, international relations, our homes, our jobs, our industries, the kind of cars we drive - will be forever transformed by the climate and energy challenge.” KindEndsHomeJobsEnergyChallengesForeverCenturyCarIndustryThirdsRelationClimateClimate ChangeInternationalDecadesTransformedInternational RelationsAmerican Life Author:Joseph J. Romm
“Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.” MayTwoEndsWaterCitiesFourSeaFeetCenturyNew YorkHigherClimateClimate ChangeStormRisingNew York CityCoastal Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the twentieth century are just not going to work. We've run out of stuff. Our big problems are going to be energy supplies and food supplies. This is not a right-left issue. It's a people issue, and it cuts across all our categories.” PeopleProblemBigsRunningEnergyLeftStuffLevelsIssuesCuttingGrowingCenturyCrisisClimateClimate ChangeCategoriesFloodGoing To WorkTwentieth CenturySuppliesBig ProblemsDroughtFood Supply Author:Margaret Atwood
“Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.” NeedsAmericaPoliticsEconomyCenturyDirectThreatClimateClimate Change21st CenturyInfrastructure Author:Barack Obama
“Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.” HumansRightsCenturyThreatClimateClimate ChangeHuman Rights21st Century Author:Mary Robinson
“Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us - that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt themselves well, perhaps better than we do, to changing world conditions - they enlarge their domain, shift their hold on our nerves, and, dispossessed of one habitat, set up house in another. The universal battiness of our century looks like providing them with a propitious climate.” WorldWellsLooksMayWholeSeemsHouseFantasyConditionsCenturyUniversalClimateGhostFancyNervesProvidingDomainHabitat Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“I thought if the climate was heating that CO2 was the only forcing, and it would be late in the century before we had trouble. Now that we know about the other half of the forcing, it's obvious that the trouble is coming much sooner.” IfsKnowsWould BeHalfTroubleCenturyLateClimateObviousOther HalfCo2Heating Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“To those of us who have been following the climate debate for decades, the next few years will be electrifying. There is a high probability we will witness the crackup of one of the most influential scientific paradigms of the 20th century, and the implications for policy and global politics could be staggering.” YearsHas BeensNextCenturyPolicyClimateFollowingDecadesDebateWitnessProbability20th CenturyInfluentialImplicationsParadigmStaggering Author:Ross McKitrick
“The impact of climate change is relatively small. The average impact on welfare is equivalent to losing a few per cent of income. That is, the impact of a century worth of climate change is comparable to the impact of one or two years of economic growth.” YearsTwoGrowthEconomicCenturyLosingImpactClimateClimate ChangeAverageIncomeWelfareTwo YearsCentsEconomic Growth Author:Richard Tol
“Politicians and some of the scientists like to say that there's a consensus now on global warming or the science has been settled, but you have to ask them, what is there a consensus on? Because it really makes a difference. What are you talking about? The only consensus I`m aware of is that it's warmed in the last century. They completely ignore the fact that there's this thing called the Oregon petition that was signed by 19,000 professionals and scientists who don't agree with the idea that we are causing climate change.” Has BeensIdeasFactsLastsAsksDifferencesTalkingCenturyPoliticianScientistAgreeClimateClimate ChangeMaking A DifferenceGlobal WarmingConsensusPetitionsOregon Author:Roy Spencer