American Climate Papas: In their “own words”
In America, as in many countries around the world, we are surrounded by incredible thinkers, speakers, personalities and “doers” who care deeply about making our planet a better place; not only for our generation but for future generations as well. They inspire us and give us hope that even after 40 years of celebrating and commemorating Earth Day, we will succeed in moving forward and tackling the incredible challenges that global warming and climate change pose for us and for generations to come.
(Stay tuned, and check back in the coming months, for special thoughts from famous Climate Mamas…)
All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it’s here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.
Barack Obama (President)
I’d say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.
Ted Turner (Businessman and Philanthropist)
First, I worry about climate change. It’s the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization, as we know it, and make a lot of the other efforts that we’re making irrelevant and impossible.
Bill Clinton (Former President)
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, for strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, and hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.
George Carlin (Comedian)
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (American Writer)
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Ansel Adams (American Photographer)
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
Chief Seattle (Native American Chief 1855)
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
John Muir (American Naturalist 1800’s)
I believe the biggest obstacle to solving global warming is the role of money in politics, the undue sway of special interests. “
Dr. James Hansen (Climate Scientist)
Don’t give up. I believe in you all. A person’s a person no matter how small.
Dr. Seuss (Writer)
One day the earth will weep, she will beg for her life, she will cry with tears of blood. You will make a choice, if you will help her or let her die, and when she dies, you will die too.
John Hollow Horn (Native American 1932)
The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.
Al Gore
Only when the last tree has been cut down; only when the last river has been poisoned; only when the last fish has been caught; only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
Cree Indian Prophecy
Let’ not wait that long…take action now…small actions add up!
Thanks for all you do…do you have a favorite quote? Let us know!
Best,
Climate Mama
The Sound Of Settled Science
Climategate: the little genie who could…
Britain’s premier scientific institution is being forced to review its statements on climate change after a rebellion by members who question mankind’s contribution to rising temperatures.
The Royal Society has appointed a panel to rewrite the 350-year-old institution’s official position on global warming. It will publish a new “guide to the science of climate change” this summer. The society has been accused by 43 of its Fellows of refusing to accept dissenting views on climate change and exaggerating the degree of certainty that man-made emissions are the main cause.
The society appears to have conceded that it needs to correct previous statements. It said: “Any public perception that science is somehow fully settled is wholly incorrect — there is always room for new observations, theories, measurements.” This contradicts a comment by the society’s previous president, Lord May, who was once quoted as saying: “The debate on climate change is over.”
The admission that the society needs to conduct the review is a blow to attempts by the UN to reach a global deal on cutting emissions. The Royal Society is viewed as one of the leading authorities on the topic and it nominated the panel that investigated and endorsed the climate science of the University of East Anglia.
Just ignore the truth, or move the goal posts.