Quote by Heidi Cullen Download Open image ““It’s better to build dams than to wait for the flood to come to its senses. —Mark Twain”” — Heidi Cullen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“What need the bridge much broader than the flood? The fairest grant is the necessity.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Dams are built with the intent of a 100-year lifetime — just long enough for societies to become completely dependent on them” — Daniel Lenihan Copy Share Image
“Don't let criticism be the dam that turns your raging river of enthusiasm into a complacent lake of indifference~” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“Just stop pursuing the subject we know is going to lead to disaster. Pro 17:14 - The idea is not to sweep the matter… — Robert E. Fisher Copy Share Image
“Water always flows downhill. So does my love. Are you prepared for a flood? You’d better build an ark.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“A dam is monumentally static; it tries to bring a river under control, to regulate its seasonal pattern of floods and low flow.” — Patrick McCully Copy Share Image
“A dam tears at all the interconnected webs of river valley life.” — Patrick McCully Copy Share Image
“Beavers hate the sound of running water; that’s partly why they build dams” — Adam Anderson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes life goes by in a trickle and sometimes life goes by in a flood. It's in those rainy seasons you find out how… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“Bjerknes had come up with equations capable of describing the behavior of the atmosphere. The state of the atmosphere at any point could be… — Heidi Cullen Copy Share Image
“Sahel’s rainfall, thanks to El Niño. During an El Niño event, the Sahel is typically expected to experience a drought, whereas during a La… — Heidi Cullen Copy Share Image
“mechanisms of weather predictions are very similar to those of climate predictions. So if we’re comfortable trusting local forecasters’ predictions about weather, we should… — Heidi Cullen Copy Share Image
“The instrument Keeling built, the gas chromatograph, works by passing infrared (IR) light through a sample of air and measuring the amount of IR… — Heidi Cullen Copy Share Image
“But the latest climate models paint a very bleak picture. According to their predictions, by the 2040s such summers will be happening every other… — Heidi Cullen Copy Share Image
“The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) synthesized the results from eighteen climate models used by groups around the… — Heidi Cullen Copy Share Image
“In the past 100 years alone, the region experienced three devastating droughts. The first stretched from 1910 to 1916; the second stretched from 1941… — Heidi Cullen Copy Share Image
“The climate models showed that greenhouse gas emissions had contributed to an increase in such summers, from one in 1,000 years to at least… — Heidi Cullen Copy Share Image
“ozone and particulate matter contribute to 8,800 deaths and $71 billion in health care costs every year. The connection with global warming is nothing… — Heidi Cullen Copy Share Image
“The goal was to build a model that represented the climate system. This was no small task. Weather models are concerned only about what’s… — Heidi Cullen Copy Share Image
“Giannini discovered that ocean temperatures helped regulate the strength of the African monsoon. What was even more fascinating was how each ocean played a… — Heidi Cullen Copy Share Image
“Using satellites capable of measuring cloud cover from space, Chiang showed that there was an increase in high clouds during El Niño years. Specifically,… — Heidi Cullen Copy Share Image
