Small things matter
Climate from the ground up

  • Why clouds?

    Cloud feedbacks continue to stymie efforts to increase confidence in climate projections.

  • there’s one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.

    Barrack Obama, Addressing the UN, 23 September 2014

  • The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.

    Al Gore, speech at National Sierra Club Convention, Sept. 9, 2005

  • Nature bears long with those who wrong her. She is patient under abuse. But when abuse has gone too far, when the time of reckoning finally comes, she is equally slow to be appeased and to turn away her wrath.

    Nathaniel H. Egleston, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, April 1882

  • Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

    Bill Gates, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec 2010

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