Prevent Global Warming Quotes

We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve publish health, and help eliminate the most systematic animal abuse in history.

Humans aren’t going to do anything in time to prevent the planet from being destroyed wholesale. Poor people are too preoccupied by primary emergencies, rich people benefit from the status quo, and the middle class are too obsessed with their own entitlement and the technological spectacle to do anything. The risk of runaway global warming is immediate. A drop in the human population is inevitable, and fewer people will die if collapse happens sooner.

If the natural environment is changed and the electromagnetic radiation levels increase, then it may cause illness and disease in humans.

If we are at all serious about ending factory farming, then the absolute least we can do is stop sending checks to the absolute worst abusers. For some, the decision to eschew factory-farmed products will be easy. For others, the decision will be a hard one. To those for whom it sounds like a hard decision (I would have counted myself in this group), the ultimate question is whether it is worth the inconvenience. We know, at least, that this decision will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve public health, and help eliminate the most systematic animal abuse in world history.

decision will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve public health, and help eliminate the most systematic animal abuse in world history.

Compare the air to a forest. When forest fires occur regularly, there is less fuel for any one fire, so the burns don't become conflagrations. If you prevent forest fires and build up a huge mass of living and dead wood in the forest, when a burn at last occurs, it is likely to be serious and large. When increased atmospheric carbon warms the air and when more vapor is available, conflagrational storms become more likely. [...] Will the pattern of storms be seen in the future as an anomaly? Or with so much more water vapor in the air, is it now normal? 'Everyone talks about global warming,' said Gavin Schmidt, head of the NASA climate models at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 'but changes in rainfall often have a bigger impact. We're forcing the climate into a state we have not seen for millions of years

[w]e should not think that we can do enough simply by buying fuel-efficient cars, insulating our houses, and setting up a windmill to make our own electricity. That is all wonderful, but it does little or nothing to stop global warming and also does not fulfill our real moral obligations, which are to get governments to do their job to prevent the disaster of excessive global warming.

I’m a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. That there is a butterfly effect and everything that happens influences what will happen next. Even my mom dying. I mean, what if she hadn’t been on the road at that very minute in that very spot? Instead, what if it were a young family, or a pregnant woman in labor being rushed to the hospital? Maybe that drunk driver running into her saved other lives. And maybe one of those lives that was saved is someone who will go on to discover how to prevent cancer. Or global warming. Or nuclear war.

(3) The acceptance of psychological myths can impede our critical thinking in other areas. As astronomer Carl Sagan (1995) noted, our failure to distinguish myth from reality in one domain of scientific knowledge, such as psychology, can easily spill over to a failure to distinguish fact from fiction in other vitally important areas of modern society. These domains include genetic engineering, stem cell research, global warming, pollution, crime prevention, schooling, day care, and overpopulation, to name merely a few. As a consequence, we may find ourselves at the mercy of policy-makers who make unwise and even dangerous decisions about science and technology. As Sir Francis Bacon reminded us, knowledge is power. Ignorance is powerlessness.

Crucially, the invasion of Afghanistan also gave hope to the great Russian dream of its army being able to ‘wash their boots in the warm waters of the Indian ocean’, in the words of the ultra-nationalistic Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and thus achieve what it never had: a warm-water port where the water does not freeze in winter, with free access to the world’s major trading routes. Some of the ports on the Arctic, such as Murmansk, freeze for several months each year: Vladivostok, the largest Russian port on the Pacific Ocean, is ice-locked for about four months and is enclosed by the Sea of Japan, which is dominated by the Japanese. This does not just halt the flow of trade; it prevents the Russian fleet from operating as a global power. In addition, water-borne transport is much cheaper than land or airborne routes.

President George H. W. Bush flew to Rio de Janeiro to sign the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which committed its signatories to preventing “dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system.”107 President Bush then pledged to translate the written document into “concrete action to protect the planet.

Her name was Sapienas. She was born from an interracial couple; her mother was part geofus and part cryo, and her father was part aviator and part therma, meaning that she was an extraterrestrial of all four races. As she was racially identified by all four, she was diligent in trying to find the cultural identities of each race. Sapienas used a web search to read about the characteristics of each race, only to discover the possibility that she was a representation of not just one, but all four stereotypes: for being part cryo, she lacked genuine passion, emotion, and love. For being part therma, she was negligent of preventing global warming and her existence only exacerbated the problem. For being part aviator, she lacked incisiveness. And, for being part geofus, she lacked technological expertise, couldn’t manipulate currency, and had a high chance of being illiterate.

An aviator-organism among the population announced, “Don’t you guys think that we should make plans to leave this planet? Why don’t we contemplate the derivation of our problem, what could be used to prevent it, how we could adjust to our transfer from this planet to our home planet, and… what about the robots? Does anyone know what robots do?” “Really? All that from someone who can’t make decisions incisively and critically assess a situation?” a therma organism asked. He scoffed. “Aviators!” “Why do you think you’re helpful?” retorted a geofus-organism. “You therma-organisms can’t even help regulate global warming! Why do you think you can help get us off this planet?” A cryo organism chimed in. “Guys… maybe we can work together to escape this planet… but let the geofus-organisms stay, because they can’t read, manipulate currency, or use technology. They need to finish developing before they can be able to do anything!” “WHAT?! Idiotic cryo-organisms! It’s not like you guys even know how to work together! You are too busy sinking into solitude!” Bitter, prolonged dissension between all four races continued, as they were simultaneously endorsing and refuting stereotypes.

God can be at work even through us. Which is why, if society is to improve, if laws are to be obeyed, if people are to be brought into the Church, if the world's economy is to be made more fair, if appropriate steps are to be taken to prevent global warming and the drowning of our coastal cities and towns, it must be done by people. And not necessarily only by other people

Global warming is not the latest version of a hoary fable of annihilation. It is not hysteria. It is a fact. And we have likely already passed the point where we could have done anything about it. From the perspective of many policy experts, climate scientists, and national security officials, the concern is not whether global warming exists or how we might prevent it, but how we are going to adapt to life in the hot, volatile world we've created.

Carbon dioxide is the single human-caused greenhouse gas with the largest influence on the climate. But it is of greatest concern also because it persists in the atmosphere/surface cycle for a very long time. About 60 percent of any CO2 emitted today will remain in the atmosphere twenty years from now, between 30 and 55 percent will still be there after a century, and between 15 and 30 percent will remain after one thousand years.7 The simple fact that carbon dioxide lasts a long time in the atmosphere is a fundamental impediment to reducing human influences on the climate. Any emission adds to the concentration, which keeps increasing as long as emissions continue. In other words, CO2 is not like smog, which disappears a few days after you stop emissions; it takes centuries for the excess carbon dioxide to vanish from the atmosphere. So modest reductions in CO2 emissions would only slow the increase in concentration but not prevent it. Just to stabilize the CO2 concentration, and hence its warming influence, global emissions would have to vanish.

Human beings didn’t have a few centuries. They had only a few decades at most. If enough forest died, the carbon released into the atmosphere would accelerate global warming to the point at which ice caps would melt and coastal cities and existing nuclear facilities become submerged. Drought and floods, famine and huge movements of refugees would lead inevitably to wars and chaos on a level unimaginable except to the few scientists who spent their waking hours working on myriad ways to prevent it. The terrible irony was that Karen and her colleagues were people who loved and revered nature, but who in order to protect their own species now found themselves compelled to manipulate and even defy it.

There is no limit on the level that the reflections can be at and in a modern environment, such as a city, the albedo can increase the power levels many times of the sky based solar radiation of direct and diffuse combined. The trees prevent the albedo reflections from occurring.

Trees are obviously a lot less mobile than, say, trogons—tropical birds common in Manú—or even ticks. But in a cloud forest, trees structure the ecosystem, much as corals structure a reef. Certain types of insects depend on certain types of trees, and certain sorts if birds depend on those insects, and so on up the food chain. The reverse is also true: animals are critical to the survival of the forest. They are the pollinators and seed dispersers, and the birds prevent the insects from taking over. At the very least . . . global warming will restructure ecological communities. Different groups if trees will respond differently to warming, and so contemporary associations will break down. New ones will form. In this planet-wide restructuring, some species will thrive. . . . Others will fall behind and eventually drop out.

Did you know? * Global warming promoters receive “3,500 times as much money as anything offered to skeptics” * The world is spending nearly $1 billion a day to prevent climate change * Gore took millions of dollars in Qatari oil money for his Current TV network

In order to prevent the end of the world, Buffy destroyed the Seed of Wonder that fed all magic on earth." Cillian whistles low and soft. "I thought it was just ... one of those things. Like we lost the magic Wi-Fi signal or something." "Didn't you notice that day the sky burst open and there were earthquakes and tsunamis and stuff?" I ask. He shrugs. "Global warming.