Weather Quotes - Page 14

• Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics.

  Chris Mooney

  Science, Climate, Events

  "Dear Donald Trump: Winter Does Not Disprove Global Warming" by Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. January 02, 2014.

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• The government can't change the weather.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, Climate Change, Can't Change

  "Marco Rubio On Climate Change: ‘The Government Can’t Change The Weather’" by Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself - Climate is beyond our power to control...Earth doesn't care about governments or their legislation. You can't find much actual global warming in present-day weather observations. Climate change is a matter of geologic time, something that the earth routinely does on its own without asking anyone's permission or explaining itself.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Government, Heal Itself, Doe

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• Yes, last year we hit a record number of murders from guns [in Chicago]. And this year we are already outpacing last year's numbers. Now, there are contributing factors that are not under anybody's control and may seem odd, but it is factually true. One of them is actually the weather. There is a dramatic increase in gun violence when it is warmer. And we are having this climate change effect that is driving that.

  Christie Hefner

  Gun, Years, Numbers

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• Low-income people everywhere will be at risk of food insecurity due to loss of assets, absence of alternative livelihood options and lack of adequate insurance coverage from extreme weather events.

  Jacques Diouf

  Loss, People, Insecurity

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• Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers. It's about the chain of natural catastrophes and devastating weather patterns that global warming is beginning to set off around the world.. the frequency and intensity of which are breaking records thousands of years old.

  Barack Obama

  Summer, Winter, Years

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.

  Nigel Lawson

  Thinking, Ordinary, Climate Change

  "They cheat, I tell you". Interview with Julian Glover, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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• Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions.

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Past, Climate, Global Warming

  "Has 'denying' won?". "The Science Show" with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. June 24, 2017.

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• Weather patterns over the next 20 or 30 years are going to be determined by the amount of CO2 that is up there now

  John Beddington

  Years, Next, Patterns

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• While we would not want to attribute every extreme weather event to climate change - the pattern is building and the costs are rising - the human costs and the financial costs

  Edward Davey

  Rising, Patterns, Want

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• [W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that they are climbing far more steeply than can be accounted for by the natural oscillation of the weather ... What people (must) do is to change their behavior and their attitudes ... If we do care about our grandchildren then we have to do something, and we have to demand that our governments do something.

  David Attenborough

  Attitude, Ocean, Grandchildren

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• Extreme weather like the droughts in Russia, China and Brazil and the flooding in Pakistan and Australia [in 2010] have contributed to a level of food price volatility we haven't seen since the oil crisisof 40 years ago. Unfortunately, this could be just a taste of things to come because in the next few decades the build-up of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere could greatly increase the risk of droughts, flooding, pest infestation and water scarcity for agriculture systems already under tremendous stress.

  John Beddington

  Stress, Oil, Agriculture

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• Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience; sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think you can shut your grief in?

  William Carlos Williams

  Grief, Thinking, Hell

  William Carlos Williams, Macha Louis Rosenthal (1966). “The William Carlos Williams Reader”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• My hair was growin' too long, so I got me a fade
  And when my dishes got dirty, I got cascade
  And When the weather was hot, I got a spot in the shade.

  Special Ed

  Dirty, Hair, Long

  Song: I Got It Made

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• Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than a feeling, the kind of feeling that comes when you gauge the distance to be jumped between two stones across a brook. Something within you disengages itself from your body and travels ahead with your vision to make the test. You can feel it try the jump as you stand looking. Then uncertainty gives way to the conviction that it can or can't be done.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Distance, Wind, Two

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• It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

  Jane Austen

  Life, Selfish, Ambition

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.307, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wind, Endurance

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.1158

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• A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Children, Philosophy

  Aldous Huxley (1970). “Collected Works: Do what you will”

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• Investors want to know how exposed a business is to climate change. The physical risks to Tesco are clear, but could be far-reaching. Freak weather in the past few months has disrupted our supply lines in Hungary, Bangladesh and Korea. Any responsible board of directors should be planning ahead, thinking through these risks, and presenting them in a clear, transparent way

  Terry Leahy

  Business, Past, Thinking

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• As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing it didn't look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk.

  Deke Slayton

  Feet, Three, Looks

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• Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Night, Men, Teeth

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• This weather may be breaking our hearts but it will not be breaking our will.

  Anna Bligh

  Heart, May

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• The best thing about conceptual poetry is that it doesn’t need to be read. You don’t have to read it. As a matter of fact, you can write books, and you don’t even have to read them. My books, for example, are unreadable. All you need to know is the concept behind them. Here’s every word I spoke for a week. Here’s a year’s worth of weather reports... and without ever having to read these things, you understand them.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Book, Writing, Years

  "Against Expression: Kenneth Goldsmith in Conversation". Poets.org Interview, www.poets.org. February 19, 2011.

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• Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or volcanoes happened. Modern religion is the end trail of modern mythology. But there are people who interpret the Bible literally. Literally! I choose not to believe that's the way. And that's what makes America cool, you know?

  Bruce Willis

  Believe, Volcanoes, America

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a five-seasons griller! Did you know I added a new season? Living in Cali, I'm cooking in the yard all the time. I don't care what the weather is like. My hair is impervious to any kind of dampness, so I don't have too much to worry about.

  Guy Fieri

  Hair, Worry, Cooking

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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