A simple calculation shows that the temperature in the…

How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet…

— Bill McKibben

A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more…

— Bill McKibben

Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the last six…

— Bill McKibben

The Arctic and the Antarctic are melting quickly. We may have waited too long to get started. But this is a day for optimism…

— Bill McKibben

We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We see huge…

— Bill McKibben

We finally know where the red line for climate really is. After the rapid melt of arctic ice in the summer of 2007, our…

— Bill McKibben

Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years.

— Bill McKibben

In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then…

— Bill McKibben

A good salesman, as the old (and politically incorrect) saying goes, can sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo. It's a cliché, but there's some…

— Josh Kaufman

If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia,…

— Alex Shoumatoff

I did a show in this tiny town called Longyearbyen. We went snowmobiling around Svalbard and saw Arctic foxes, snow bunting, polar bear footprints…

— Bill Bailey

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that…

— Dan Lipinski

The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the…

— James Lovelock

Some have suggested that ideally there must be some international body that would treat areas like the Arctic as a global commerce, a bit…

— Kofi Annan