Raymond Pierrehumbert quotes

The big damages come if the climate sensitivity to greenhouse gases turns out to be high causing greater global warming than current projections. Then it's not a bullet headed at us, but a thermonuclear warhead.
-- Raymond Pierrehumbert

#Bullets #Damage #Climate

The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.

Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine.

Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]

We have received no single argument in favour of this document except political pressure. No link has been established between carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. No other objective facts have been presented in recent time. The IPCC's reports in 1990 and 1995 show it clearly.