Bad Weather Quotes - Page 3

• States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Weather, Roots, Firsts

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.68, Penguin

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• Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Men, Weather

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• A lot of what is done by the climate lobby is anti-science. But there is some science behind it. Like, there are greenhouse gases, and they do contribute to warming. But if you look at the last, say, 160 years, the first 80 of that period, they went up about four-tenths of a degree. And now, the second 80 that CO2 has increased by, what, 30 percent or something, it's gone up five-tenths of a degree. And there's been in the last 30 or 40 years, there's been no real increase in storms or bad weather.

  Charles Koch

  Real, Years, Weather

  "What Charles Koch really thinks about climate change". Interview with Jim Tankersley, www.washingtonpost.com. June 6, 2016.

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