“The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.” YearsLastsEffortMillionsPolicyPercentClimateCarbonEmissionsCarbon DioxideMetricsKyotoKyoto Protocol Author:Bjorn Lomborg
“There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic circle, or on a Windsor chair by the side of the River Lea in the so-called temperate zone, or you may squat in a canoe on an equatorial river, with the surrounding atmosphere forty-five percent mosquito, and if you are fishing you will enjoy yourself.” IfsMayEnjoySidesFivePercentRiversClimateCirclesHolesIceAtmosphereCharmChairsZoneFishingFortyFascinationDistinctiveArcticMosquitoesSquatEnjoy YourselfWindsor Book:West African Studies Source: West African Studies
“Although population and consumption are societal issues, technology is the business of business. If economic activity must increase tenfold over what it is today to support a population nearly double its current size, then technology will have to reduce its impact twenty-fold merely to keep the planet at its current levels of environmental impact. For example, to stabilize the climate we may have to reduce real carbon emissions by as much as 80 percent, while simultaneously growing the world economy by an order of magnitude.” IfsWorldMayRealTodayOrderLevelsTechnologySupportEconomyIssuesGrowingEconomicExamplePlanetsActivityPercentIncreaseTwentiesImpactClimateEnvironmentalSizePopulationCurrentsSustainabilityConsumptionCarbonFoldsEmissionsMagnitudeWorld EconomyCarbon EmissionsEnvironmental Impact Book:Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World Source: Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World
“It's estimated that about 30 percent of the increase in grain prices could be attributed to the decision to embrace biofuels, particularly corn-based ethanol. It has done nothing for climate change and the business is in real trouble now with the collapse of oil prices. It's completely dependent on a dollar subsidy and tariff from the government.” RealDoneGovernmentDecisionTroublePercentIncreaseEmbraceDollarsClimateClimate ChangeOilDependentCollapseGrainCornSubsidiesTariffsEthanolOil PriceBiofuels Author:Michael Pollan
“About 40 percent of my time is spent on social issues and building new organizations, more for the benefit of the climate or health issues.” SocialIssuesBuildingBenefitsPercentOrganizationClimateMy TimeSocial IssuesHealth Issues Author:Richard Branson
“... For nearly a decade now, there has been no global warming. Even though atmospheric CO2 has continued to accumulate - up about 4 percent in the last 10 years - the global mean temperature has remained flat. That should raise obvious questions about CO2 being the cause of climate change.” ShouldYearsMeanHas BeensLastsCausesPercentRaisesClimateClimate ChangeObviousDecadesGlobal WarmingFlatsTemperatureCo2 Author:Walter Cunningham
“The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that was the end Permian extinction, where climate change caused in part by mega-volcanic eruptions wiped out ninety-five percent of life on Earth. It took about ten or twenty million years for the planet's ecosystems to stabilize. During that time you saw a lot of weird, out-of-balance ecosystems where, for example, crocodile-like predators ripped the crap out of each other along the coasts.” YearsEndsEarthKnownMillionsFiveSawsWorstExamplePlanetsBalancePeriodsTenMassPercentTwentiesClimateClimate ChangeCrapCoastNinetyExtinctionEcosystemsPredatorRippedRecoveringCrocodilesEruptionMegaMass ExtinctionVolcanic Eruptions Author:Annalee Newitz
“The focus, to my mind, is to make sure that Donald Trump does not become president of the United States. I think by temperament he is unqualified to be president. I think his views - you have a guy who's running for president who rejects science, doesn't even believe climate change is real, let alone wants to do something about it, wants to give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the top two-tenths of one percent.” ThinkingWantGivingMindBelieveDoeTwoRealStatesRunningGuyPresidentUnitedViewsBreakUnited StatesFocusTrumpTaxesPercentDollarsClimateClimate ChangeBillionsRejectsTemperamentUnqualifiedTax Breaks Author:Bernie Sanders
“I'm the one candidate that can really stand up for what it is that the American people are really clamoring for. And that means jobs, an emergency jobs program. We call for the creation of 20 million jobs, to solve the emergency of climate change, and we call for 100 percent clean, renewable energy by 2030.” PeopleMeanJobsEnergyMillionsCreationPercentProgramCleanClimateClimate ChangeSolveCandidatesEmergenciesRenewable Energy Author:Jill Stein
“Looking at the map of the Russian Federation, one can see a country covering mostly northern areas; today more than 70 percent of our territory is or can be referred to as northern, if not the Far North. We have a rather small warm Black sea strip in the South and - to tell the truth - quite a few regions with a hospitable warm climate.” IfsCountryTodayBlackSeaPercentAreasSouthClimateWarmTelling The TruthRegionsMapsTerritoryCoveringFederation Author:Vladimir Putin
“A lot of what is done by the climate lobby is anti-science. But there is some science behind it. Like, there are greenhouse gases, and they do contribute to warming. But if you look at the last, say, 160 years, the first 80 of that period, they went up about four-tenths of a degree. And now, the second 80 that CO2 has increased by, what, 30 percent or something, it's gone up five-tenths of a degree. And there's been in the last 30 or 40 years, there's been no real increase in storms or bad weather.” IfsYearsFirstsLooksRealDoneLastsBehindsGoneFiveFourPeriodsDegreesPercentIncreaseClimateStormWeatherGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesCo2Bad Weather Author:Charles Koch
“Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.” ScienceNeededPercentScientistAgreeClimateAgreementReduction Author:Donella Meadows