As Storms Keep Coming, FEMA Spends Billions in ‘Cycle’ of Damage and Repair, Kevin Sack & John Schwartz, NY Times, Oct 8.
Our most sweeping, impressive, and consequential project as a species is the global effort to get as much ancient life out of the ground everywhere it exists, and into the air as fast as possible.”
Tweet by journalist Peter Brannen, commenting on Saudi Aramco’s Manifa shallow water oilfield, Sept 9.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine July report connecting global warming to the increased risk and severity of certain classes of extreme weather — like some of the heat waves, floods and droughts we’re experiencing — carries the same scientific import as the U.S. surgeon general’s 1964 report connecting smoking to lung cancer.”
NY Times op-ed columnist Thomas Friedman, paraphrasing Heidi Cullen, chief scientist at the science and news organization Climate Central, in What if Mother Nature Is on the Ballot in 2020?, Aug. 14.
In many places, people are preparing for the past or present climate. But this summer is the future.”
Robert Vautard, senior scientist, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris, in This Summer’s Heat Waves Could Be the Strongest Climate Signal Yet, reported by Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News, July 28.
The climate is changing far more quickly than Republican attitudes.”
R L Miller of ClimateHawks, in House Votes to Denounce Carbon Taxes. Where Was the Climate Solutions Caucus?, Inside Climate News, July 19.
Conservatives sometimes underestimate how individual choices have collective consequences, and liberals sometimes underestimate how economic incentives affect individual choices.”
Donald Shoup, Parking And The City, Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), 2018, p. 53.
At the national level the Republican Party has become a destructive and anarchic political force in American life.”
Trump’s White House is a Black Hole, by Peter Wehner, senior fellow at the Ethics & Public Policy Center, and an official in the Reagan, Bush-41 & Bush-43 administrations, The New York Times, March 3, 2018.
The arc of the physical universe appears to be short, and it bends toward heat. Win soon or suffer the consequences.”
Bill McKibben, in Winning Slowly Is the Same as Losing, Rolling Stone, Dec. 1.
Climate change is not a future threat; it is happening now, and we are paying for it in lost lives and billions of dollars in damage.”
Michael Bloomberg & Jerry Brown, The U.S. Is Tackling Global Warming, Even if Trump Isn’t, The New York Times, Nov. 14.
When we viewed photographs and film of the annihilated cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we sensed that the world could be ended by nuclear weapons. Now these hurricanes [Harvey, Irma, Jose and Maria] have conveyed a similar feeling of world-ending, having left whole islands, once alive in their beauty and commerce, in ruin.”
Robert Jay Lifton, Our Changing Climate Mind-Set, NY Times, Oct. 7.
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