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"Now, as the world's largest economy and as the world's second largest emitter, America bears our responsibility to address climate change, and we intend to meet that responsibility."
"Please don't let all the freak storms and climate change lead you to believe in freak storms and climate change."
"When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference."
"The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week."
"The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined."
"We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk."
"At a time when U.S. jobs are heading overseas at a record pace, and amidst increased sanctions on our manufacturers and producers from other countries, it's imperative that we do all we can to provide our businesses a climate to operate successfully."
"We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have to make to these climate changes, and so it's extremely important to bear witness to what's happening."
"Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us."
"Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were complying with the music industry. Music was getting more and more dead in a way. Now, because of the social climate that's very severe, the artists are compelled to start being real. It's really great that indie music is now."
"Coal is a portable climate."
"A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate"
"But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the Solar System - and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate."
"Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a principle or progress; it's just a principle of local adaptation. You don't make better creatures in any cosmic sense; you make creatures that are better suited to the changing climates of their local habitats."
"LA has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever."
"Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends."
"...the world needs to face up to the challenge of climate change, and to do so now. It is clear that climate change poses an urgent challenge, not only a challenge that threatens the environment but also international peace and security, prosperity and development. And as the Stern report showed, the economic effects of climate change on this scale cannot be ignored, but the costs can be limited if we act early"
"My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because of their attitude on climate change."
"What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?"
"Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere."
