"Much of the scientific community has been astonished that their increasingly strong and detailed warnings have been either ignored or attacked."

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Source : Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

Joseph J. Romm

#Strong Quotes #Community Quotes #Climate Quotes

“I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: "Do you believe in Gravity?"”
“Donâ€™t fuss. I love you just as you are, Mercy. I donâ€™t need to swallow you whole, I donâ€™t need to be in your head at all times. I just need to know that youâ€™re there.”
“We all have inner demons to fight, we call these demons, fear and hatred and anger. If you do not conquer them then a life of one hundred years is a tragedy. If you do, then a life of a single day can be a triumph.”
“The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.”
“Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly pain in football during a head-on collision, pain in other sports on the occasion of a serious injury. That was more the threat of pain; in rowing there was the absolute guarantee of it every time.”

Source : David Halberstam (2012). “The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal”, p.73, Open Road Media
“If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.”
“It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.”
“Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial respect and understanding. It seemed as if the dream of a color-blind society was within reach in the jazz world, where musicians were judged on merit and not skin color.”

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