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“Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.”

Facts Natural Study Climate Gas Coal Natural Gas

“The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind.”

Men Mind Humans America Science Ability Type Climate Active Nervous Spite Delicate Organisms Frozen Strain Adjustment

Book:A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American

Source: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American

“High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as mediated by expert systems.”

Form Risk Particular Late Consequence Claims Climate Experts Characteristics Modernity

Book:Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

“The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.”

Risk Climate Modernity

Book:Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

“At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.”

Challenges Evolution Diversity Climate Climate Change Adaptation Crops

Author:Cary Fowler

“The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action.”

World Action Solutions Climate Climate Change

Author:Michael Franti

“In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.”

World Needs Energy Realizing Waste Climate Ships Around The World Calories

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms.”

Littles Seems Difficult Can Do Dark Issues Conversation Climate Climate Change Eras Realistic Organisms Genetically Modified

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.”

Matter Interest Community Huge Concern Climate Climate Change

Author:Peter Garrett

“It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.”

People Ifs Wells Lying Individual Responsibility Climate Climate Change Arguing Acceptable

Author:Peter Garrett

“Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.”

World Looks Understanding Issues Research Institutions Climate Climate Change Guts Conducting

Author:Peter Garrett

“The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.”

People Play Whole Use Force Generations Materials Climate Climate Change Fuel Goods Civilisation Transportation Goods And Services

Author:Peter Garrett

“Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.”

Real Jobs Economy Climate Productions Heavy Protection Construction Sustainability Engineering Machinery

Author:Sigmar Gabriel

“Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.”

Becoming Climate Spread Convinced Asian Variation Mammals Geologist

Book:A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American

Source: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American

“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.”

Energy Share Periods Majors Program Climate Climate Change China Forests Target Intensity Adopted Reducing Coverage Renewable Energy Discharge Implementing

Author:Hu Jintao

“Developed countries should support developing countries in tackling climate change. This not only is their responsibility, but also serves their long-term interests.”

Should Long Country Term Interest Responsibility Support Climate Climate Change Developing Long Term Developing Countries Tackling Developed Country

Author:Hu Jintao

“I voted against the climate-change legislation. Not that I don't believe we should move to a clean-energy economy, and it can be good for South Dakota's economy to do so, but it was started out as a very partisan bill in the committee.”

Should Believe Moving Energy Economy Bills Clean South Climate Don't Believe Climate Change Be Good Committees Legislation Partisans Clean Energy Dakota South Dakota

Author:Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

“I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.”

Knows Should Honesty Climate Leaving Verses Rhyme

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“This is not some distant problem of the future. This is a problem that is affecting Americans right now. Whether it means increased flooding, greater vulnerability to drought, more severe wildfires - all these things are having an impact on Americans as we speak.”

Mean Problem Speak Greater Right Now Impact Climate Vulnerability Severe Drought Flooding Wildfires

Author:Barack Obama

“When Americans are called on to innovate, that's what we do - whether it's making more fuel-efficient cars or more fuel-efficient appliances, or making sure that we are putting in place the kinds of equipment that prevents harm to the ozone layer and eliminates acid rain. At every one of these steps, there have been folks who have said it can't be done. There have been naysayers who said this is going to destroy jobs and destroy industry. And it doesn't happen because once we have a clear target to meet, we typically meet it. And we find the best ways to do it.”

Way Kind Has Beens Said Done Happens Jobs Steps Clear Car Industry Rain Climate Folks Harm Best Way Fuel Target Efficient Layers Equipment Acid Appliances Naysayers Ozone Ozone Layer Acid Rain

Author:Barack Obama

“If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions.”

Ifs Able One Thing Cost Climate Carbon Emissions Carbon Emissions

Author:Barack Obama

“Part of what's unique about climate change, though, is the nature of some of the opposition to action. It's pretty rare that you'll encounter somebody who says the problem you're trying to solve simply doesn't exist. When President Kennedy set us on a course for the moon, there were a number of people who made a serious case that it wouldn't be worth it; it was going to be too expensive, it was going to be too hard, it would take too long. But nobody ignored the science. I don't remember anybody saying that the moon wasn't there or that it was made of cheese.”

“We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We need entrepreneurs to sell those technologies. We need workers to operate assembly lines that hum with high-tech, zero-carbon components. We need builders to hammer into place the foundations for a clean energy age. We need diplomats and businessmen and women, and Peace Corps volunteers to help developing nations skip past the dirty phase of development and transition to sustainable sources of energy. In other words, we need you.”

“Today, about 40 percent of America's carbon pollution comes from our power plants. There are no federal limits to the amount those plants can pump into the air. None. We limit the amount of toxic chemicals like mercury, and sulfur, and arsenic in our air and water, but power plants can dump as much carbon pollution into our atmosphere as they want. It's not smart, it's not right, it's not safe, and I determined it needs to stop.”

“There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.”

Issues Growing Century Threat Climate Urgent

Author:Barack Obama

“Yes, this is hard. But there should be no question that the United States of America is stepping up to the plate. We recognize our role in creating this problem; we embrace our responsibility to combat it. We will do our part, and we will help developing nations do theirs. But we can only succeed in combating climate change if we are joined in this effort by every nation - developed and developing alike. Nobody gets a pass.”

“We're showing that there's no excuse for other nations to come together, both developed and developing, to achieve a strong global climate agreement next year.”

Years Together Next Strong Nations Achieve Climate Excuse Developing Agreement Next Year No Excuses

Author:Barack Obama

“The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.”

Wells Behinds Europe Climate Climate Change Fallen Recognizing Implications

Author:Vinod Khosla

“I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.”

Believe Nations Issues Environment Risk Taxes Vote Bigger Climate Climate Change Deficit Hawks

Author:Vinod Khosla

“Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.”

Knows Needs Years Planets Climate Climate Change Probability Distribution Tipping Irreversible Tipping Point

Author:Vinod Khosla

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