Climate Quote by Alex Shoumatoff Download Open image “The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.” — Alex Shoumatoff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Climate Complex Environment Feedback Global Interactive Kinds Loops System
Climate change is a process that typically is non-linear. Even upon examination, it lives in comparison with other moments. — Sebastian Copeland Copy Share Image
“Literature is the equivalent of the climate scientist’s computer simulations: set up some new starting conditions, run the whole complicated process and see what… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
In the end, climate action is not about global conferences or complex formulas. It's about a child here in Roxbury, who needs clean air… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
Being at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation to try… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
“the UN IPCC AR3 actually made the following admission:206 In climate research and modeling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a… — Alan Carlin Copy Share Image
How reliable are the computer [climate] models on which possible future climates are based? Not very. All will agree that the task of modeling… — Don Aitkin Copy Share Image
“The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.” — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“The changing climate should be seen as a series of discrete, manageable problems that can be attacked from all angles simultaneously. Each problem has… — Michael R. Bloomberg Copy Share Image
I'm not so interested in technology for technology's sake. I don't need incredibly sophisticated climate-control systems. And I'm absolutely amazed at the time people… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
An increasing amount of climate research suggests a possibility of global cooling. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nature got it right with the cranes. They have been around since the Eocene, which ended 34 million years ago. — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years ago. According… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet. — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
In the '70s, Florida-style golf communities started to be built for America's baby-boomers who were doing well and taking up the game but couldn't… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Trump has got to be one of the most branded people on the planet. You can't get away from him. — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth. — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River… — Roy Barnes Copy Share Image
Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis. — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row… — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
We're at a time when we are being presented with undeniable changes in the global climate and fundamental issues that affect every single one… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I do not underestimate the difficulty of the challenge that global climate change presents to us. It will take a significant effort and the… — Federico Pena Copy Share Image