“We are each part of the answer, in small and big ways. This is the biggest challenge of our time, maybe of all time. We need everyone.”— Eric Holthaus, twitter.com
“No one noticed When the sparrows left It was just another smoggy winter morning People drove their cars dropped their children off At air conditioned schools Where they learned Pollution is a bad thing It was just another smoggy winter morning And stuck on flyovers No one noticed That they spent mor…”— Unknown, twitter.com
“I’m not sure how much more clearly we can say this: Everything we’re doing, if it doesn’t involve eliminating fossil fuel use immediately, is actively making the climate problem worse. There is no time left for incremental action. It is literally do or die time.”— Eric Holthaus, twitter.com
“Our task is to reduce emissions as quickly and justly as possible, no matter the political context. We don’t have time to wait for 'a better time.'”— Eric Holthaus, twitter.com
“The ice doesn't care who's in the White House. It doesn't care which party controls your congress. It doesn't care which party controls your parliament. It just melts.”— David Titley, twitter.com
“Building and then running new wind and solar energy is now cheaper than continuing to run existing coal and nuclear power plants, study says. Beyond grid parity price, to disruption price. If it holds true, fantastic for humanity.”— Alex Steffen, twitter.com
“A fast transition away from fossil fuels in the next few decades could be enough to put off rapid sea-level rise for centuries. That’s a decision worth countless trillions of dollars and millions of lives. 'The range of outcomes,' Bassis says, 'is really going to depend on choices that people make.'”— Eric Holthaus, grist.org
“A wholesale collapse of Pine Island and Thwaites would set off a catastrophe. Giant icebergs would stream away from Antarctica like a parade of frozen soldiers. All over the world, high tides would creep higher, slowly burying every shoreline on the planet, flooding coastal cities and creating hundr…”— Eric Holthaus, grist.org
“Minute-by-minute, huge skyscraper-sized shards of ice cliffs would crumble into the sea, as tall as the Statue of Liberty and as deep underwater as the height of the Empire State Building. The result: a global catastrophe the likes of which we’ve never seen.”— Eric Holthaus, grist.org
“At some point, we have to say it: Climate change is the biggest act of injustice in the history of humanity. It is our moral duty to demand justice, whatever the cost. That time for me is now.”— Eric Holthaus, twitter.com
“For the rest of our lives, every moment matters. Do what you can, whatever that is. Everyone has part of the answer. We need each other, and we are in this together. We can imagine and demand and build a better world. We must insist that time start now.”— Eric Holthaus, twitter.com
“We appeal to those who hold an influential role to listen to the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor, who suffer more because of ecological imbalances.”— Pope Francis, catholicnews.com
“In the absence of major efforts to reduce emissions and strengthen resilience, the Gulf Coast will take a massive hit. Its exposure to sea-level rise — made worse by potentially stronger hurricanes — poses a major risk to its communities.”— Robert Kopp, princeton.edu
“I love solar power. But what does that have to do with climate change? Not a dibble-dee-do-dot.’”— John Coleman, mynewsla.com
“Planet Earth will likely warm about 3 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100, at which point the side effects of climate change would become more severe, according to three studies published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.”— Sean Duffy, courthousenews.com
“Climate change affects everyone, all nations, not just one or two. Consider it a global issue; national interests will automatically be met.”— Dalai Lama, twitter.com
“Remember that if our politicians and president won't confront climate change, we must demand that companies and communities do.”— Chuck Wendig, twitter.com
“They say it’s one of the rarest events in nature happening and everyone's just oblivious to it. And you can’t blame them for it, it's just almost typical of all of humanity.”— Andrew Ackerman, imdb.com
“Ordinary citizens also have a right to be skeptical of an overweening scientism. They know — as all environmentalists should — that history is littered with the human wreckage of scientific errors married to political power.”— Bret Stephens, nytimes.com