Quotes from a climate change expert


	Quotes from a climate change expert

cobismith

6-6-2007 9:09 AM

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sustainability, climate change, carbon storage

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2ac8240b-49cd-40d3-aeac-ac836036dd72/80493BEA-D745-45FB-9F6A-12D55BE5A871/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://iancawrse.com/2007/06/06/tim-flannery-on-world-environment-day/" href="http://iancawrse.com/2007/06/06/tim-flannery-on-world-environment-day/" style="font-size: 11px;">iancawrse.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://iancawrse.com/2007/06/06/tim-flannery-on-world-environment-day/">Tim Flannery, the current Australian of the Year, gave an excellent talk at <A target="_blank" title="King's College" href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/">King’s College</A> in London last night. His latest book is called ‘<A href="http://www.theweathermakers.com/">The Weather Makers</A>‘, so it was fitting that his presentation focused on climate change. My favourite quotes from his talk are:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://iancawrse.com/2007/06/06/tim-flannery-on-world-environment-day/">“We’re not masters of the universe, but babies just beginning to learn how to be planetary engineers”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://iancawrse.com/2007/06/06/tim-flannery-on-world-environment-day/">“The atmosphere is the great uniting organ of the planet”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://iancawrse.com/2007/06/06/tim-flannery-on-world-environment-day/">Interestingly, he mentions <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrolysis">pyrolysis</A> as a potential method for storing carbon.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/80493BEA-D745-45FB-9F6A-12D55BE5A871/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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