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Wednesday 21st of January 2026

Global warming “The central message of this report is that US financial regulators must recongize that climate change poses serious emerging risks to the US financial system, and they should move urgently and decisively to measure, understand, and address these risks,” the committee said. Financial Times, September 9, 2020, summarizing a report published by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, a Wall Street regulator that oversees futures and swaps markets © 2020 Kwiple.com
Global warming Climate change isn't a problem that can be solved by summoning the “will.” It isn't a problem that can be “fixed” or “conquered,” though these words are often used. It isn't going to have a happy ending, or a win-win ending, or, on a human timescale, any ending at all. Whatever we might want to believe about our future, there are limits, and we are up against them. Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, November 28, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Global warming Climate change, sadly, isn't a classic  contest between two groups of people. It's a negotiation between people on the one hand  and physics on the other. And physics doesn't do compromise. Precisely because we've waited so long to take any significant action, physics now demands we move much faster than we want to. Bill McKibben, Rolling Stone, December 14-28, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Global warming The climate operates on a time delay. When carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere, it takes decades –in a technical sense, millennia– for the earth to equilibrate. This summer's fish kill was a product of warming that had become inevitable twenty or thirty years ago, and the warming that's being locked in today won't be fully felt until today's toddlers reach middle age. In effect, we are living in the climate of the past, but already we've determined the climate's future. Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, October 24, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Global warming Climate scepticism is being driven out by climate cynicism. A sceptic questions the evidence for a given claim and asks whether it is believable. A cynic questions the motives of the people who deploy the evidence, regardless of whether it is believable or not. Any attempt to defend the facts gets presented as evidence that the facts simply suit the interests of the people peddling them. David Runciman © 2017 Kwiple.com
Global warming The climate's changing, okay. We've got that, and we can adapt to that reality but the simple fact is you can't hollow out your industrial core to deal with this. Jeb Bush, October 14, 2015 © 2015 Kwiple.com
Global warming Do I believe there is something called climate change? I do. How much? Not enough for me to go out and cost somebody their job. John Kasich © 2015 Kwiple.com
Global warming The emission of greenhouse gases is an example of a market failure — one business enterprise passing on the real cost of doing business to people who aren't party to that business. That is, most of the rest of us. Kerry Emanuel © 2022 Kwiple.com
Global warming Even a billion humans cutting their emissions  wouldn’t achieve anything significant, with seven billion others getting richer and emitting more. Obsessing about personal footprints also plays into the strategy of fossil-fuel  producers, which love to cast climate change as an individual moral responsibility. In reality, we can reach Net Zero only by transforming collective energy, and industrial and agricultural systems. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, November 23, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Global warming Every time you have that soil or rock, whatever it is, that is deposited into the seas, that forces the sea levels to rise because now you've got less space in those oceans because the bottom is moving up. Mo Brooks © 2023 Kwiple.com
Global warming The first thing I would do as president is repeal the regulations that are hampering our energy that the president has put in place, including the Clean Power Act. Rand Paul © 2015 Kwiple.com
Global warming For the past few years, a tide of optimistic thinking has held that conditions for human beings around the globe have been improving. Wars are scarcer, poverty and hunger are less severe, and there are better prospects for wide-scale literacy and education. But there are newer signs that human progress has begun to flag. In the face of our environmental deterioration, it's now reasonable to ask whether the human game has begun to falter–perhaps even to play itself out. Bill McKibben, New Yorker, November 26, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Global warming FOR THIRD YEAR, THE EARTH IN 2016 SET HEAT RECORD — — — — — — — — — — — Threat to Society and Nature is Rising — Scale of Shift Startles Scientists headline, print edition, New York Times, January 19, 2017 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Global warming Global carbon emissions will have to decline 45% by 2030 to avoid apocalyptic global warming according to a 728-page UN report released on Oct. 8. It says a 2C temperature rise could trigger an irreversible domino effect as tropical rainforests die and methane-rich permafrost melts. Bloomberg Businessweek, October 16, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Global warming Global climate change will have wide-ranging implications for U.S. national security interests over the foreseeable future because it will aggravate existing problems – such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership, and weak political institutions – that threaten domestic stability in a number of countries. Department of Defense report on National Security Implications of Climate- related Risks and a Changing Climate © 2015 Kwiple.com
Global warming #Harvey in perspective. So much rain has fallen, we've had to update the color charts on our graphics in order to effectively map it. National Weather Service, 7:21 AM - 28 Aug 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Global warming I'm not a believer in climate change. … Look, it's weather and it's been that way for so long. Donald Trump, September 24, 2015 © 2015 Kwiple.com
Global warming I'm not supporting policies that are going to hurt our economy and have no impact, zero, on the climate. Marco Rubio, November 3, 2015 © 2015 Kwiple.com
Global warming I'm not worried about the planet. I'm worried about us. Kerry Emanuel, MIT professor of meteorology © 2022 Kwiple.com
Global warming I think there are things we can do to protect the environment. We should. But we shouldn't worship the environment. John Kasich © 2015 Kwiple.com
Global warming  If we don't win very quickly on climate change, then we will never win. That's the core truth about global warming. It's what makes it different from every other problem our political systems have faced. Bill McKibben, Rolling Stone, December 14-28, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Global warming If we fail to act now, it is scientifically irrefutable that there will be catastrophic and irreversible consequences for humanity and our planet. December 6, 2009, open letter to President Obama and the Congress, from liberals and business leaders, including “Donald J. Trump, Chairman and President, Donald Trump, Jr., EVP, Eric F. Trump, EVP, Ivanka Trump, EVP, The Trump Organization” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Global warming In early July [2022], at a time when much of the country was baking in ninety-five-degree-plus heat, the [New York] Times took a poll of registered voters. Asked to name the most important problem facing the nation, twenty per cent of the respondents said the economy, fifteen per cent said inflation, and eleven per cent said partisan divisions. Only one per cent said climate change. Among registered Republicans, the figure was zero per cent. Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, November 28, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Global warming In the past thirty years, humans have added as much CO2 to the atmosphere as they did in the previous thirty thousand. … In the words of the Stern Review, a report commissioned by the British government in 2005, climate change “is the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen.” Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, November 28, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Global warming In 2016, the United Nations High Com- missioner for Refugees estimated that, globally, an average of twenty-one million people were being displaced by weather- related events every year. The U.N.’s International Organization for Migration has projected that by 2050 as many as a billion people may be on the move. In the coming decades, “huge populations will need to seek new homes,” Gaia Vince, a British journalist, has written. Either “you will be among them, or you will be receiving them.” Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, November 28, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Global warming Is there anything that the National forest Service or BLM can do to change the course of the moon's orbit or the Earth's orbit around the sun? Obviously, that would have a profound effect on our climate. Louie Gohmert, to a stunned Forest Service official during a live-streamed meeting of the House Committee on National Resources' Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands © 2023 Kwiple.com
Global warming It's like saying the sun isn't real because last night it got dark. Bill Maher, on those who think a day's cold weather or snow disproves global warming © 2015 Kwiple.com
Global warming Justice demands that, with what little carbon we can still safely burn, developing countries are allowed to grow. The lifestyles of a few must not crowd out opportunities for the many still on the first steps of the development ladder. Narendra Modi, prime minister of India © 2015 Kwiple.com
Global warming The last 18 years, if you look at the satellite data, there is no significant recorded warming whatsoever. Ted Cruz, September 30, 2015 © 2015 Kwiple.com
Global warming  Less than one percent of the planet's surface has an average temperature higher than twenty-nine degrees Celsius, or eight-four degrees Fahrenheit; at the moment, that's mostly in the Sahara region. But computer modeling shows that within fifty years those kinds of temperatures could be common in most of the tropics, an area projected to be home to 3.5 billion people. Bill McKibben, New York Review of Books, October 6, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Global warming The liar denies that climate change is really happening. The hypocrite accepts that it is real but behaves as if the words don't mean anything. David Runciman © 2017 Kwiple.com
Global warming A March Gallup poll found that public concern about the problem had reached an eight-year high: some 64% of Americans, it suggested, worried a “great deal” or a “fair amount” about global warming. That is a lot more than the percentage who voted for President Trump. Nature, November 17, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Global warming Maybe you are simply not mature enough to tell it like it is, because even that burden you leave to us children. We become the bad guys who have to tell people these uncomfortable things, because no one else wants to, or dares to. Greta Thunberg, to the French parliament © 2019 Kwiple.com
Global warming The reality is that society places extraordinary value on any medical intervention that will extend or improve life, even if only by a fraction. The same intense demand is not in evidence for innovations that reduce carbon emissions. Since it is costless to emit carbon for most companies in most places, there is almost no market for products that set out to capture it. Countless forlorn Project Bs [to capture it] have died or gone unfunded, even if the technology shows promise. Today, only idealists and optimists will back “cleantech” projects. Robin Harding, Financial Times, Nov. 27, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Global warming Scientists are struggling to understand why a burst of “scary” warming at the North Pole has pushed Arctic temperatures nearly 20C higher than normal for this time of year. … Temperatures this month have been as high as almost minus 5C when they are normally closer to minus 25C. Financial Times, November 23, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Global warming The solution to climate change won't be found in political posturing or virtue signaling. It won't be found in the federal government at all. You know where the solution can be found? In churches. In wedding chapels. In matermity wards … The solution to so many of or problems is to fall in love, get married and have some babies. Mike Lee © 2019 Kwiple.com
Global warming The terrorists are absolutely delighted that our president is so delusional that instead of figting ISIS, he's talking about climate change. Carly Fiorina, pissed Obama talked about climate change with leaders of nearly 200 nations at the 2015 UN Climate Change Summit, where she presumably would have gone off-topic © 2015 Kwiple.com
Global warming There is no overwhelming science that the things that are going on are man-caused and not naturally caused. Ben Carson, September 8, 2015 © 2015 Kwiple.com
Global warming There is one person that changes climate in this country and that is God. Tommy Tuberville © 2023 Kwiple.com
Global warming To put this in terms of power, Americans are consuming roughly eleven thousand watts every moment of every day. A string of incandescent Christmas lights uses about forty watts. It's as if each of us had two hundred and seventy-five of these strings draped around our homes, burning 24/7. … This means that an American household of four is responsible for the same emissions as sixteen Argentineans, six hundred Ugandans, or a Somali village of sixteen hundred. Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, November 28, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Global warming  To the extent that climate change is putting  organisms as well as ecosystems under stress, it's opening the opportunities for invasive species on the one hand and disease on the other. Think death. Thompson Webb III, Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences © 2024 Kwiple.com
Global warming Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. It used to be [that] it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier. Ted Cruz © 2016 Kwiple.com
Global warming Two centuries ago, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere was two hundred and seventy-five parts per million; it has now topped four hundred parts per million and is rising more than two parts per million each year. The extra heat that we trap near the planet every day is equivalent to the heat from four hundred thousand bombs the size of the one that was dropped on Hiroshima. Bill McKibben, New Yorker, November 26, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Global warming  U.S. CLIMATE STUDY  HAS GRIM WARNING OF ECONOMIC RISKS  — — — — — — — — — — — Reduction of Up to 10 Percent in G.D.P.— Findings Are at Odds With Policies headline, print edition, New York Times, November 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Global warming The U.S., with 4 percent of the world population today, has produced a quarter of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere; the carbon we poured into the air during our industrialization and (especially) our suburbanization will linger there for a century or more. No country, not even far more populous ones like China, will come close to catching us. Somalian famine, Honduran hurricanes, Vietnamese indundation — these are crises caused by us, and given that many in industry and government have known the  consequences of burning fossil fuels for decades, you could fairly say the climate crisis is a kind of crime Americans have been committing. Bill McKibben, New York Review of Books, October 6, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Global warming US investors’ enthusiasm for green investments has begun to wane in the face of repeated attacks on “woke capitalism” by Republicans, in a growing contrast to the billions still pouring into sustainable strategies in Europe. Funds marketed with a sustainable label were hit with $12.4bn in net outflows in the US in the past 12 months even as green funds in Europe added $126.3bn, according to the data provider Morningstar. Financial Times, April 28, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Global warming We always hear that we should think globally and act locally. I understand what that means — I think we as a nation should be part of the global consciousness. But each individual cannot be part of that. So “Think locally, act locally” is the key message for us. Søren Hermansen, “energy magician” of Denmark's Samsø Island © 2024 Kwiple.com
Global warming We are the first generation to feel climate change and the last that can do something about it. Barack Obama © 2015 Kwiple.com
Global warming We can eliminate all our jobs, and we can all just live in poverty, and you'd probably see a reduction in carbon. Jeb Bush © 2015 Kwiple.com
Global warming We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows? Dana Rohrabacher © 2016 Kwiple.com
Global warming We know the maximum heat at which human beings can survive, the so-called wet bulb temperature of 35C [95F], which is calculated depending on the local mix of heat and humidity. Currently, fewer than one million people live in areas that average 38-45C [100.4-113F] in the shade during the hottest month, estimates the Inter-  national Organization for Migration (IOM). That number will reach 30 to 60 million by 2100, even if we limit average global temperature rises to 1.5C [2.7F]. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, June 23, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Global warming While I do think man may have a role in our climate, I think nature also has a role. The planet's 4.5 billion years old. We've been through geologic age after geologic age. We've had times when the temperature's been warmer, we've had times when the temperature's been colder. We've had times when the carbon in the atmosphere's been higher. We need to look before we leap. Rand Paul © 2015 Kwiple.com
Global warming Q: Why don't they have any solar power in Florida? A: Because they'll be underwater before the payback period is over. Joke among green energy advocates © 2019 Kwiple.com
Global warming The world's average temperature has increased by around 1C since mass industrialization, with 16 of the 17 warmest years on record all occurring since 2000. The Earth hasn't experienced carbon dioxide levels as high as they are now for at least three million years, when the sea level was around 80ft higher than it is today. The Guardian, May 9, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Global warming Years ago, Roger Pielke Jr, political scientist at the University of Colorado,  formulated the Iron Law of Climate Policy: “When policies on emissions reductions collide with policies focused on economic growth,  economic growth will win out every time.” That law still holds, and not because our leaders are bad people or in hock to fossil-fuel lobbies. It holds because economic growth is what electorates want. We vote for emissions. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, November 11, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
 
Global warming You need to clean out your ears. Chris Christie, to a young girl who said she heard him say humans contribute to climate change by breathing, which he insisted he had never said in spite of videotape showing him saying it © 2015 Kwiple.com