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Ye lovers of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, Take myadvice, and visit the ancient town of Crieff; The climate is bracing, and the walks lovely to see Besides, ye can ramble over the district, and view the beautiful scenery.
William McGonagall— More Poetic Gems (published1962),'Beautiful Crieff', stanza1.
Our cloudy climate, and our chilly women. 181
Rochdale— 1818 Beppo, stanza 49.
Gordon Brown thinks you should solve climate change by changing your lightbulbs. We think you should solve climate change by changing your Government.
siân berry— Keynote Speech, GP Autumn Conference 2007, Liverpool [1]
Why do people build houses to keep the climate out, then cut holes in the walls to let it in again? I shall never understand.
kyril bonfiglioli— Ch. 3 (Don't Point That Thing At Me (1972))
Global warming causing climate change may be the ultimate issue that unites us all.
louise burfitt-dons— Speech, Institute of Physics, London (June 2008)
Some time this century, the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all natural factors.
tim flannery— Chapter 32 (p. 284)
To the Legislative Assembly belongs the consideration of measures which may best tend to the development of the resources of the Territory. Oregon possesses within herself many of these, which with enterprise and industry will most surely render her a wealthy, powerful, and prosperous State. She has a fertile soil, and genial climate; she has [vast] forests and abundant fisheries, unlimited water power, pastures upon which even during winter, innumerable flocks and herds can subsist, with no other care than the mere herding; and prairies which could with only moderate labor, furnish the whole of our Pacific Territories with bread.
— John P. Gaines (December 1852) "Governor John P. Gaines Legislative Message, 1852", Oregon State Archives, Oregon Secretary of State, Oregon Provisional and Territorial Records, 1852, Calendar No. 9375.
I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions.
john howard— Interview with Four Corners', ABC TV, August 28, 2006.
The major challenges of climate change, the major challenge of the economy and manufacturing, the major challenges in education, and how do we turbo-charge our national education system to create the knowledge base for the future of the Australian economy. These are the sorts of areas that you're going to see detailed policy plans from us in the weeks and months ahead...
kevin rudd— Rudd's new vision for the nation
When he said he was going to stop the march and called it a hate march, I think that was very provocative. The Mayor's statements have created a climate that could possibly lead to some kind of confrontation.
al sharpton— News conference (18 August 1999), prior to the second Million Youth March
With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems.
josette sheeran— The Lancet Volume 371, Issue 9608, Pages 180 - 181, (19 January 2008)
Creativity can only survive in organizations in which the climate is empathetic to the whole process.
— Simon Majaro. The Creative Gap, Longman (1988)
In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs—in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.
william wordsworth— Preface
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
joseph addison— No. 93. (The Tatler (1711–1714))
(Asked by John King about the political climate that existed in Washington at the time, and criticism of the Department of Justice under his management) Listen I don't expect an apology from men like Chuck Schumer, and I would put him and other individuals who were attacking me at the top of the list contributing to the low, low public perception of Congress, the integrity of Congress quite frankly.
alberto gonzales— [2] July 23, 2010
I'm involved in a different kind of campaign myself to make sure that the climate crisis is the number one issue on the agenda of candidates in both parties. And I know that sounds like an unrealistic goal right now, but I will wager that by the time the elections of November 2008 come around, it will be the number one issue in both parties.
al gore— "Al Gore: 'The Assault on Reason' in America" on Things Considered at NPR (25 May 2007)
I've kind of fallen out of love with politics. ... Whatever experience and talents I've gained over the years I think it may well be that the highest and best use of that is to try to bring enough awareness of the solutions to the climate crisis and enough of a sense of urgency that we come together across party lines on behalf of our children.
al gore— As quoted in "Gore: I've 'fallen out of love with politics'" at CNN (6 July 2007)
climate forecasts (projections) decades into the future have not demonstrated skill in forecasting local, regional, and global climate variables.
roger a. pielke— "Are Multi-decadal Climate Forecasts Skillful?", Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group Weblog (2005-07-22) [1]
The claim by the IPCC that an imposed climate forcing (such as added atmospheric concentrations of CO2) can work through the parameterizations involved in the atmospheric, land, ocean and continental ice sheet components of the climate model to create skillful global and regional forecasts decades from now is a remarkable statement. That the IPCC states that this is a ‘much more easily solved problem than forecasting weather patterns just weeks from now’ is clearly a ridiculous scientific claim.
roger a. pielke— "A Short Summary of Why Skillful Climate Prediction Is Much More Difficult than Skillful Weather Prediction," Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group Weblog (2007-05-23) [2]
The IPCC WG1 Chapter 3 Report clearly cherrypicked information on the robustness of the land near-surface air temperature to bolster their advocacy of a particular perspective on the role of humans within the climate system. As a result, policymakers and the public have been given a false (or at best an incomplete) assessment of the multi-decadal global average near-surface air temperature trends.
roger a. pielke— "Documentation of IPCC WG1 Bias by Roger A. Pielke Sr. and Dallas Staley - Part I," Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group Weblog (2007-06-20) [3]
In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue to kill, it is imperative to pursue good faith disarmament negotiations and to shift budgets away from weapons production, war-mongering, surveillance of private persons and devote available resources to address global challenges including humanitarian relief, environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, prevention of pandemics, and the development of a green economy.
alfred de zayas— United Nations expert urges states to cut military spending and invest more in human development [67]
Creativity can only survive in organizations in which the climate is empathetic to the whole process.
— Simon Majaro. The Creative Gap, Longman (1988)
The soil and climate in Delhi are also not favourable for anthrax.
— Riaz Khan (Delhi Zoo curator), Money Control (2012)[4]
The disruption of the world's ecological systems from the rise of global warming and the consequent damage to our climate balance, to the loss of living species and the depletion of ocean fisheries and forest habitats continues at a frightening rate. Practically every day, it becomes clearer to us that must act now to protect our Earth, while preserving and creating jobs for our people.
— Al Gore, Address to the International Press Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (30 April 2000.
I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-gita. It was the first of books’ it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another rage and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, as quoted on bhaktivedantamanor.co.uk
Writ in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Children of the Lord's Supper, line 262.
You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.
— Milton Erickson, in Quotes by Milton H. Erickson, MD
If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.
— Ingrid Newkirk, in Pacific Islands Studies 492 Waves of Change:Climate Change in the Pacific, University of Hawai’i at Manoa (Summer 2014)
