"The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization."

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"The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization."

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"Reverence for nature is part of our shared heritage. Combating climate change is in our enlightened self-interest."

Narendra Modi, Indian Leader

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"Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte."

Francis Parkman, American Historian

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"The climate continues to deteriorate."

Donella Meadows, American Environmentalist

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"Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect."

Francis Parkman, American Historian

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"If you fill the atmosphere with toxins, then you really cannot be surprised if the solar radiation transmission through it becomes toxic to humans."

Steven Magee, British Author

Climate, Environment, Awareness, Health, Atmosphere

"All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it."

James Lovelock, English Scientist

Climate, State

"Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming."

Brian Mulroney, Canadian Statesman

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"Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits."

Piers Corbyn, English Scientist

Climate, Computer, Limits, Weather

"Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos."

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"While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker."

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"Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population."

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"We need to make it clear that we will withdraw from Iraq within 6 to 9 months - so that the Iraqis will know that they must stand up and defend the opportunity given to them."

Opportunity

"The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence."

Body

"In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth."

Age

"As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet."

Attention

"As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action."

Policy

"We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on track to pass the U.S. as the largest economy in the world in 20 to 25 years, and China is determined to give its people a chance at this high standard of living that we enjoy."

People

"Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S."

Politics

"The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States."

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"We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem."

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