Climatologist

🇺🇸Michael E. Mann

Education

b. 1965

"...If we fail to act to bring down our carbon emissions over the next decade, this will lock in disastrous melting of the ice sheets, sea level rise, and a rise in devastating weather extremes down the road."

🇺🇸Louis Agassiz

Science

1807–1873

"The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal."

🇬🇧Joanna Haigh

Education

b. 1954

"Without concerted and swift international action to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, the 1.5°C threshold is likely to be passed by 2040 and the report sets out very starkly the costs of inaction."

🇺🇸Kate Marvel

Science

b. 2000

"I started my career as an astrophysicist, and then I realized that nowhere else in the universe is as good as here, right? This is the best planet."

🇺🇸Roger A. Pielke

Mathematics

b. 1946

"Whether one agrees or not with Mr. Taylor , this is an inappropriate politicalization of climate science to promote a particular view."

Edmond Halley

Science

1656–1742

"Wherefore, if, according to what we have already said, it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman."

🇩🇪Alexander von Humboldt

Philosophy

1767–1835

"Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things."