Thousand years Quote by Elizabeth Kolbert

“The size of the greenhouse forcing is estimated, at this point, to be 2.5 w/m2. A miniature Christmas light gives off about four tenths…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Well in the scientific there is virtually no debate over certain things. For example, that we are changing the world. Humans are changing the…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“A sign in the Hall of Biodiversity offers a quote from the Stanford ecologist Paul Ehrlich: IN PUSHING OTHER SPECIES TO EXTINCTION, HUMANITY IS…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

We have all this Paleolithic art that suggests that our ancestors really venerated animals and that they depended on wild animals to survive -…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“Crutzen wrote up his idea in a short essay, “Geology of Mankind,” that ran in Nature. “It seems appropriate to assign the term ‘Anthropocene’…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians (and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people) are carrying around is…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

What are the Chinese doing, what are we doing, what are - so we need, both the developed world and the developing world, really…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“As the effects of global warming become more and more difficult to ignore, will we react by finally fashioning a global response? Or will…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

As best as can be determined, the world is now warmer than it has been at any point in the last two millennia, and,…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

I traveled really to amazing places. I went to the Great Barrier Reef, I went to the Amazon, I went to the Andes, to…

— Elizabeth Kolbert