The ice core showed that the climate could switch from an ice age to warm conditions in a human lifetime. ibid.
The discovery of rapid climate change was a scientific revolution. ibid.
No matter where Carbon Dioxide is released it disperses evenly in the upper atmosphere. Professors Iain Stewart & Kathy Sykes, Future Earth
It’s in the Arctic that the effects of global warming are most evident. ibid.
There are earlier hurricane strikes in New York’s history. ibid.
It is likely that thirty-five million Bangladeshis would become climate refugees. ibid.
Glaciers are shrinking worldwide. ibid.
Fire seasons are going to get a lot worse. ibid.
A rise of three degrees is a nightmare scenario for us all. ibid.
The sheer volume of greenhouse gasses that could be released from the permafrost would likely push average temperatures even higher than three degrees. ibid.
On the same day similar marches took place all over the world: more than half a million people took to the streets in over a dozen countries ... Paris 2015: the protesters are demanding that world leaders actually reach a deal this time – a global agreement to slash carbon dioxide emissions in the coming decades. Iain Stewart, Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World III ***** BBC 2018
The danger of global warming is as yet unseen, but real enough for us to make changes and sacrifices so that we do not live at the expense of future generations. Margaret Thatcher
The weather satellite depicts a planet that grieves for its lost harvests. The Earth’s climate is changing in little ways that mean big trouble for the human species. Magnus Magnusson
Now the Big Freeze might be as deadly as a nuclear war. Magnus Magnusson
I was amazed to find that there was a very serious reduction in the amount of sunlight in Israel. In fact if we compare those very early measurements from the 1950s with the current measurements there was a staggering 22% drop in the sunlight. And that really amazed me. Dr Gerard Stanhill, Israel Agricultural Research Organisation, cited Horizon
We’ve been told it’s the greatest threat humans have ever faced. But over the last few years a group of people have been actively denying there is any danger. They are called Climate Sceptics. Storyville: Meet the Climate Sceptics, BBC 2011
In America the fight against global warming had become a fight for freedom, a fight against government control. ibid.
Who do you trust with your future? Can we risk trusting the advice of the sceptics? ibid.
I feel as if I’ve failed to get the message across. Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, 2006
The most vulnerable part of the Earth’s ecological system is the atmosphere. ibid.
I had a professor named Roger Revelle who was the first person to propose measuring carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere ... He drew the connections between the larger changes in our civilisation and this pattern that was now visible in the atmosphere of the entire planet. ibid.
We started measuring carbon dioxide in 1958. ibid.
There is a message in this – it is worldwide – and the ice has stories to tell us. ibid.
If you look at a thousand years of temperature and compare it to a thousand years of CO2 you can see how closely they fit together. ibid.
When there is more carbon dioxide the temperature gets warmer because it traps more heat from the sun inside. ibid.
If you look at the ten hottest years ever measured in this atmospheric record, they’ve all occurred in the last fourteen years. And the hottest of all was 2005. ibid.
When the oceans get warmer that causes stronger storms. ibid.
As the water temperature increases the wind velocity increases and the moisture content increases. ibid.
There have been warnings hurricanes will get stronger. ibid.
Global warming not only increases precipitation worldwide but it also relocates precipitation. ibid.
Soil evaporation increases dramatically with higher temperatures. ibid.
This is the largest ice shelf in the Arctic – the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf – it just cracked in half three years ago. ibid.
The ice cap – it has diminished by forty per cent in fifty years. And now there are two major studies showing that within the next fifty to seventy years in summertime it will be completely gone. ibid.
We are by far the worst contributor to the problem. ibid.
Species loss is now occurring at a rate one thousand times more than the natural background. ibid.
West Antarctica ... If this were to go, sea levels worldwide would go up twenty feet ... Roughly the same size – Greenland would also raise sea levels almost twenty feet if it went. ibid.
We are witnessing a collision between our civilisation and the Earth. ibid.
Much of it comes not only of cutting but also burning; almost 30% of all the CO2 that goes up each year into the atmosphere comes from forest burning. ibid.
Old habits that are hard to change plus new technology can have dramatically altered consequences. ibid.
The misconception that there’s disagreement about the science has been deliberately created by a relatively small group of people. ibid.
The second misconception – Do we have to choose between the economy and the environment? ibid.
Each one of us is a cause of global warming but each one of us can make choices to change that. ibid.
Are we capable of rising above ourselves and above history? ibid.
That is what is at stake – our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilisation. I believe this is a moral issue. ibid.
The Climate Crisis can be solved. ibid.
The forces trying to stop me changed, re-grouped. Al Gore, An Inconvenient Sequel, 2017
14 of the 15 hottest years ever measured have been since 2001. The hottest of all was 2016. ibid.
In April of this year the temperature over Greenland was much higher than normal. ibid.
The top ten cities at risk [of sea rise]: Kolkata, Mumbai, Dhaka, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Shanghai, Bangkok, Rangoon, Miami, Hai Phong. ibid.
Despair can be paralyzing. ibid.
As temperatures increase, the oceans evaporate more moisture into the sky. ibid.
Every storm is different now because of the climate crisis. ibid.
A pollution based tax system principally CO2: we’re causing it mainly; the vast majority of it. The consequences are bad and will be catastrophic unless we act ... Put a price on the carbon. Tax is the best way. Cap and trade can also do it ... I am in favour of both. Al Gore
Those who deny global warming are just flat out wrong. Al Gore
Al Gore Purchases Carbon Credits From a Company He Owns Himself. Digital Journal online article
A global carbon trading network will be crucial to preventing dangerous climate change, a new report commissioned by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown found. New Energy World Network online article 20th July 2009
Obama Calls for Carbon Trading Scheme, Vows Strong Action on Climate. ICTSD online article 28th November 2008
Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter! George W Bush, parting words at G8 summit, punching air and grinning widely July 2008
Good. We er ... the globe is warming ... Is it man-made or natural? George W Bush
Some of the scientists, I believe, Mr Vice-President, haven’t they been changing their opinion a little bit on global warming? … There’s a lot of, there’s differing opinions. And before we react I think it’s best to have the full accounting, full understanding of what’s taking place. George W Bush, presidential debate 11 October 2000
There is no evidence that greenhouse warming is occurring; or if it is it will lead to disaster. Professor Fred Singer, Emeritus Professor University of Virginia