Could these changes arise from natural climate variability alone? The answer is no. Even today, one can hear statements sometimes from senior members of our government saying we know nothing about the causes and effects of climate change. That's really not true.


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Every time we got something into the camera it was as if we were saying to the 6 million ghosts -- w...
BEN KINGSLEY
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
BEN SWEETLAND
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
BEN BAYOL
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for th...
BEN ELTON
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it...
BEN STEIN
People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture ...
BEN ELTON
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towar...
BEN ELTON
I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JOHNSON
I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JOHNSON
In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the ...
BEN HECHT
Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effo...
BEN HECHT
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JOHNSON
Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON
All concord's born of contraries.
BEN JONSON
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world ...
BEN STEIN
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achieveme...
BEN STEIN
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is neve...
BEN STEIN
Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would ...
BEN MANSKI
Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dange...
BEN MANSKI
The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
BEN JONSON
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, t...
BEN OKRI
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alter...
BEN OKRI
The greatest success, is successful self acceptance.
BEN SWEET
Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.
BEN HOROWITZ