David Grinspoon Quotes

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.

It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.

Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

You can't say for certain what will happen to the weather in the long term.

Being at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation to try to understand global climate change.

Neptune's unusual behavior is showing us that though we can make great models of planetary atmospheric circulation, there may be key pieces missing.

We know that the environment and political information is important, and we expose and teach the women about some of the environmental factors that lead to their incarceration.

My dad joined Langley in 1964 as a co-op student and retired in 2004 an internationally respected climate scientist.

There are so many different environmental factors for just how safe it is for a kid to come out.

We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.

The latest computer modeling I've seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as "environmental refugees."

Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global warming, or overpopulation, we need bigger government, more regulation, higher taxes, and a massive transfer of power from the citizens to some unelected self-perpetuating crisis lobby.

Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.

Americans long thought that nature could take care of itself-or that if it did not, the consequences were someone else's problem. As we know now, that assumption was wrong; none of us is a stranger to environmental problems.

Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.

This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels.

All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

I don't know how you can live on the planet and not care about the environment. It's our globe, we share it.

Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works.

When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference. At the most basic level, don't let denial go unchallenged and win the conversation on climate.

Cars don't cause pollution, trees do.

We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be an environmentalist on a daily basis if you are not thinking about the number one cause of global warming or one of the top two or three causes of all other environmental problems? Does it mean you are necessarily someone who doesn't care about the environment? Obviously not, but it might mean you have a blind spot for something big.

The capitalist system only allows us to heap up waste. I would like to propose that the trillions of money earmarked for war should be channeled to make good the damage to the environment, to make reparations to the earth.