"Some 3 million years ago, when the earth was a little more than 3Â°C warmer than preindustrial levels (about 2.2Â°C warmer than today), Antarctica had far less ice and sea levels were a stunning 25 meters higher than today. If we stay on our current emissions path, the planet will almost certainly be that warm by the century's end."

-- Joseph J. Romm

#Years Quotes #Ice Quotes #Sea Quotes

“If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.”
“I have great faith in the jury system.”
“Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society.”
“I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.”
“I'm in a funny position: I've been in one band in my life and that was with my brother. As incredible as that has been, I feel like I'm missing out a little bit on being in a real rock band - or how I imagine being in a real rock band to be. It's like being in a street gang: you all wear the same leather jacket or whatever.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.”
“Without freedom there is no art.”
“Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose.”

Source : Bernard Brodie (1978). “The Development of Nuclear Strategy”, University of California LA Center for

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