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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.

~Adam Ferrara

Topics: Call Glaciers Her Like Pictures Road Send Stuff Stupid Wife

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In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.

~Ban Ki-Moon

Topics: Both Dominated Earth Glaciers Horizon Ice Melting Once Open Poles Sea Seen Where

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The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.

~Bill Kurtis

Topics: Arctic Been Glacier Glaciers Gone Moved National National Park Park Predicted Prediction Same Sea Summer Up Will Year Years

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We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the consequences of past actions are already in the pipeline. Global temperatures are rising. Glaciers are melting. Sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events are multiplying.

~Cary Fowler

Topics: Actions Amount Atmosphere Cannot Co2 Consequences Continue Events Extreme Fact Glaciers Global In Fact Know Levels Melting Now Past Pipeline Put Rising Sea Temperatures We Cannot Weather

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If you compare Everest photographs in 1953 with its current state, things are melting. I imagine if I were a golfer in Indiana, I'd be hard-pressed to believe in climate change because nothing's going on there. But when you're up in the mountains and seeing the glaciers melt away, it's an obvious physical manifestation of a warming planet.

~Conrad Anker

Topics: Away Because Believe Change Climate Climate Change Compare Current Everest Glaciers Going Golfer Imagine Indiana Manifestation Melt Melting Mountains Nothing Obvious Photographs Physical Planet Seeing State Things Up Warming Were You

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The alpine environment is very delicate. I've been able to see change in the mountains in the 20 years that I've been climbing full-time. Glaciers have receded. The tree-line is changing. That's very rapid to see nature changing in a 20-year period.

~Conrad Anker

Topics: Able Been Change Changing Climbing Delicate Environment Full-Time Glaciers Mountains Nature Period Rapid See Very Years

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East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

~David Hockney

Topics: Caused Does East Glaciers Hills Just Like Little Looks Lot Marvelous Rivers Unusual Valleys Were Yorkshire

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Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.

~Don Young

Topics: Any Arctic Community Covered Farming Found Glaciers God Grapes Had Huge Ice Iceland Northwest Open Passage Raising Remember Scotland Some Villages Were Wide

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Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Almost Glacier Glaciers Gone National National Park Park

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The Himalayan glaciers, China's trade surplus, Olympic ice hockey - the world is full of pressing subjects that people never consult me about.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: About China Consult Full Glaciers Hockey Ice Me Never Olympic People Pressing Subjects Surplus Trade World

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