"Today's dialogue has succeeded in reinforcing the need for international partnerships and cooperation in tackling the reality of climate change."
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"Individuals in a university - students, faculty, staff - can choose to become politically engaged, and a free university should foster a climate in which those are natural choices."
"[Donald] Trump has been very inconsistent on many things; on Twitter he's been all over the place, but some of it is very consistent. That is: Do nothing about climate change except make it worse. And he's not just speaking for himself, but for the whole Republican Party, the whole leadership. It's already had impact, it will have worse impact."
"As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which the Earth's climate is being radically modified by human action, creating a very different planet, one that may not be able to sustain organized human life in anything like a form we would want to tolerate."
"I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain."
"It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models."
"Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs."
"The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared."
"Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it."
"...heaven for climate, and hell for society."
"God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company"
"I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it."
"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate."
"Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years."
"The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the jumping-off place to examine the social mores and the economic and political climates. In a way, the autobiography becomes history as well as the story of one person, for it becomes the story of a family or the story of the state or nation."
"We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education."
"The climate informs the character."
"This is an historic step forward in the world's efforts to combat a truly global threat."