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  • And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet - because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They're a threat to our children's future. And in this election, you can do something about it.

    Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina
  • In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.

    Sweet   Spring   Flower  
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”
  • He sank into that kiss, and fed from me like a starving man holding off famine. I drank from his soul in preparation for the drought to come. And when he finally pulled away, my throat was thick with unspoken words, my heart heavy with every apology I'd ever denied him. But it was too late for promises. The time had come for goodbye.

    Goodbye   Heart   Kissing  
    Rachel Vincent (2010). “Pride”, p.424, MIRA
  • But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! if Heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

    Death   Garden   Heaven  
    William Browne, of Tavistock, “The Rose”
  • Africa can stun you in an instant. It can throw floods and drought and disease at you, sometimes all at the same time. In the next moment, it will tease you with its magnificent beauty, so even if you don't forget, you can find a way to forgive. Ultimately, it keeps you coming back for more.

    Forgiving   Disease   Way  
    Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.95, HarperCollins Publishers
  • Syria is on the back end of basically a decade-long drought. Over the last decade, farmers and herders have been ravaged in Syria forcing them to give up and move to urban areas. This has put a huge strain on urban resources, and it's surely one of the reasons for the uprising there.

  • Plenty of people say my guesses about a future drought in the western U.S. (where I live and grew up) are wrong, so I don't see why I won't be wrong in some people's eyes when I go set a story on foreign shores.

    Eye   People   Stories  
    Source: www.sfsignal.com
  • This isn't about 'causality' but about 'influence'. The evidence is clear that human-induced climate change is influencing the drought, no matter the cause.

  • Without sounding too grandiose, the survival of the planet itself is at stake, you have rising sea levels, acidification of the oceans, immigration sparked by climate change, droughts that are much more severe.

    Change   Ocean   Sea  
  • Comrades, just as the earth, after a long drought, pants for rain, so the workers of the world pant for the end of the accursed war, for unification. This striving of the workers for unification is the greatest factor in world history.

    War   Rain   Long  
  • Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.

    Plant   Crops   Results  
    "Margaret Atwood, Speculative Fiction's Apocalyptic Optimist". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. October 20, 2009.
  • The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. [...] Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.

    Gay   White   Sick  
    "A Lost Civilization". www.nytimes.com. December 8, 2012.
  • For those of us who worry more about working people than about windfall profits for oil companies, it may net out. A better question is: what does it do to our economy if we manage to overheat the earth? This summer's drought provides a small taste.

    Summer   Oil   People  
    Source: thinkprogress.org
  • The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such as war and drought, and-most important of all-as the concrete means of developing a steadily higher living standard for all.

    War   Mean   Important  
    "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham. Part II, Chapter IV, A Plan For Conserving Surplus, p. 50, 1937.
  • Thou slanting rain! Thou Hebe of the Skies, That pours out drink to Earth; thou faithful wife That with moist tears embraces her prone lord. Thou mist intensified; thou double dew That drowns the drought, that heals the parched and burnt -- Thou resurrection rain.

    Rain   Sky   Wife  
    William Batchelder Greene (1888). “Cloudrifts at Twilight”
  • We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.

    Fernando Pessoa (2005). “The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive”
  • The climate crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. From not only the warming of the earth with higher global temperatures, but also from strengthening storms and expanding droughts to melting ice and rising seas, the costs of carbon pollution are already being felt by governments, corporations, taxpayers and families around the world. The climate crisis will affect everything that we love and alter the course of our future. Now, more than ever, we must come together to solve this global crisis. We must act decisively, rise to the occasion and solve this monumental challenge.

    Government   Ice   Sea  
  • You'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya in the late 1990s, there would be a serious threat to the water flow down the Nile on which 10 countries depend.

    Country   Weather   Water  
  • One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?

    "The Earth Is Full". www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2011.
  • God cannot save them from fools.

    Tree   Avalanches   Fool  
  • Drought never brought dearth.

    Drought  
    George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.267
  • Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

    Names   Weather   Energy  
    "Hurricane Irene Can Be Tied to Global Warming, Says Bill McKibben" byBill McKibben, www.thedailybeast.com. August 25, 2011.
  • We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are the most severely affected by droughts, high temperatures, the flooding of coastal cities, and more severe and unpredictable weather events resulting from climate change. We, who should have been responsible stewards preserving our vulnerable, fragile planet home, have been wantonly wasteful through our reckless consumerism, devouring irreplaceable natural resources.

  • In Australia we can take a playbook back to California from people who have actually adopted best practises, who have seen those practises play out over the years and plan for future droughts.

    Years   Play   California  
    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.

    Past   Clay   Cracks  
    "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James A. Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.
  • The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.

  • It's a new normal and I really do think that global weirding is the best way to describe what we're seeing.

    "Floods, Droughts Are ‘New Normal’ Of Extreme U.S. Weather Fueled By Climate Change, Scientists Say". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2011.
  • For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.

    Children   Climate   Sake  
    Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.
  • Sexual immorality and impure thoughts violate the standard established by the Savior. We were warned at the beginning of this dispensation that sexual immorality would be perhaps the greatest challenge. Such conduct will, without repentance, cause a spiritual drought and loss of commitment.

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