Arctic Quotes
100 quotes by 79 authors
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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We had an electrical fault about 500 miles into the trip and lost more than half our fuel. We had a fire on the roof.…
— Richard Branson
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There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and…
— Matthew Fontaine Maury
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Drilling in the Refuge is completely unnecessary when we could improve the average fuel economy of cars, minivans and SUV's by just 3 miles a…
— Ed Markey
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...Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica, and other glaciers? Was it…
— Kevin E. Trenberth
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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 Earth.…
— Bill McKibben
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The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on…
— William O. Douglas
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For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the Arctic.
— Sheila Watt-Cloutier
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According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.
— George Will
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There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The Old Religion, as we call it, is closer in spirit to Native American traditions or to shamanism of the Arctic. It is not based…
— Starhawk
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For as long as I can remember, I have loved snow and ice. As a result, I have spent most of my life exploring the…
— Lonnie Dupre
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A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water…
— Bill McKibben
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Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as little as five…
— Al Gore
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The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years.
— Joseph J. Romm
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I have long been something of a climate-change sceptic, but my views in recent years have shifted. For me, the most convincing evidence that something…
— Michael Hanlon
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Temperature measurements in the arctic suggest that it was just as warm there in the 1930's...before most greenhouse gas emissions. Don't you ever wonder whether…
— Roy Spencer
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I am shocked, truly shocked. I was in Siberia a few weeks ago, and I am now just back in from the field in Alaska.…
— Katey Walter
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If substantial methyl hydrate melt begins to occur in the Arctic Ocean basin, then the (carbon) accelerator will be jammed, and there will be nothing…
— Mark Lynas
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We can look forward to the day when the free flow of trade, from the southern reaches of Tierra del Fuego to the northern outposts…
— Ronald Reagan
Who Wrote These Arctic Quotes
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