"I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings."

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Source : "Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.

Michael E. Mann

#Ocean Quotes #Past Quotes #Ice Quotes

“I'm still having fun and as long as skiing is enjoyable, I'm going to continue to do it.”
“It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called in any sense privileged, it has shown the largest and most consistent concern for the well-being of the classes which lie below it in the social scale.”
“The government invented the Internet.”
“Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.”

Source : Robert Morley, Sewell Stokes (1967). “Robert Morley: a reluctant autobiography”
“When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.”
“I love Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench as well. They're all wonderful and they're very inspiring.”
“Being able to play a role where you're there almost every day and you're just in it... I remember it was a whirlwind, but it was a lot of fun.”
“Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.”

Source : "Greed and amnesia: the devils in financial history". www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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