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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn't make it clear.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it.
- Carbon
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as other fossil fuels combined and it still has far greater reserves. We must stop using it.
- Dawn
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- Nov 07, 2020
On a per capita basis, Britain is responsible for more of the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere than any other nation on Earth because it has been burning it from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent to burning coal in your automobile.
- Democrats
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to send a message to Congress and the president that we want them to take the actions that are needed to preserve climate for young people and future generations and all life on the planet.
- Fossil
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- Nov 07, 2020
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.
- Hammering
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more jobs associated with fossil fuels than other industries. That's of course not true. But they're hammering that into the voters' heads.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tipping points are so dangerous because if you pass them, the climate is out of humanity's control: if an ice sheet disintegrates and starts to slide into the ocean there's nothing we can do about that.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise.
- Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.
- Jail
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.
- Happening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.
- Climate
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.
- Ice
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't tie a rope around the ice sheet. You can't build a wall around the ice sheets.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your child gets asthma, the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay. Or if there's a natural disaster, the bill is paid by the taxpayer, not the fossil fuel company.
- Climate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.
- Farmer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.
- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.
- Collapse
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- Nov 07, 2020
As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020