Global Warming Quotes For Your Quick Reference

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Ross GarnautAustralia should be ready to go beyond its 60% stated reduction target by 2050 in an effective global agreement that includes developing nations. it's going to be essential for the developed nations to do more.The Australian, 22nd Feb 2008.Economist Prof Garnaut was commissioned by the Rudd Australian Government to assess what needs to be done about climate change. His interim report was released on 22/02.08 with a full report in September 2008.

Global Warming Quotes - Commonsense Or Engagement?

John Howard- Former Australian Prime Minister[Climate change] is an issue that requires a balanced application of commonsense, it requires a measured but determined response, it requires a response that recognises that in the vernacular the world is not going to come to an end tomorrow because of climate change, and we shouldn't imagine for a moment that that is the case, but equally we would be foolish indeed to ignore the accumulated scientific evidence that mankind's behaviour has contributed to the process of global warming. Australia, it should be remembered, is one of the few countries in the world that is actually on track to achieve the emissions target set by the Kyoto Protocol, unlike many of those in other parts of the world that spend a great deal of time lecturing Australia in increasingly moralistic terms about our failures in this area. Media Speech June, 2007

Kevin Rudd – Australian Prime MinisterClimate change is the most pressing challenge we face in the new century. The effects of global warming are already hurting Australia, adding to the current drought. Yet we face even hotter and drier summers, the coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef, the loss of our snow fields, increasing droughts, less water for our cities and an increase in the number of devastating bushfires. Kevin 07 Fresh Ideas - Climate change Our greatest Challenge Yet.

Some global warming quotes by scientists can be particularly noteworthy:

Paul EhrlichIt is not too late for humanity to avert a vast ecological disaster and make the transition to a sustainable society; but the task will not be simple. (...) the co-operation that will be needed to solve global environmental problems is unlikely to be achieved in a world divided into haves and have-nots and riven by ethnic antagonisms.P.321-322. Human Natures. Genes, Cultures and the Human Prospect. 2000. Penguin Books.

Stephen HawkinsThe human race has no future if it doesn’t go into space. I believe life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers.Upon his 65th birthday celebration, taking a gravity-free flight, lifting the famous physicist Dr Hawkins free from the support of his wheelchair for the first time in almost 40 years. Dr Hawkins hopes there there is intelligent life beyond Earth. “There is not much sign of it on Earth”, he said.

James LovelockSo how do we acquire, or re-acquire, an instinct that recognises not only the presence of a great Earth system but also its state of health? (...) The Earth was never seen as a whole until astronauts viewed it for us from outside., and then we saw something very different from our expectation of a mere planet-sized ball of rock existing within a thin layer of air and water. Some astronauts ... were deeply moved and saw the Earth itself as their home. Somehow we have to think like them and expand our instinctive recognition of life to include the Earth.The Revenge of Gaia, 2006, Allen Lane.

Tim FlanneryThe best scientific evidence indicates that we need to reduce our CO2 emissions by 70% by 2050. Climate change affects almost every family on this planet. Seventy percent of all people alive today will still be alive in 2050.The Weathermakers, 2006

Tony McMichaelIn today's rich Western countries, the average personal use of energy is about one hundred times greater than in the world's poorer populations. Further large amounts of materials are consumed and wastes are generated. ...The ecological footprint of industrialised societies is huge. The Netherlands depends on an area of Earth's surface 15 times greater than its own national area to support its way-of-life. ... Thus the populations of rich countries have, in part, attained their their ... wealth from the environmental resources of other less powerful populations or by 'borrowing' against the environmental capital of future generations. (...) An ecologically literate banker would disapprove of this long-term deficit budgeting. Any business whose 'profitability' depended primarily on borrowings and on the exhaustion of capital would face eventual bankruptcy.p.28. Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease. Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures. Cambridge University Press.

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Not Merely Global Warming Quotes - Action!

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