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What They're Saying |
Which of Them Said It |
| 1. “This may be remembered as the day the question mark was removed from whether human activity has anything to do with climate change.” | f. Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Environment Programme |
| 2. “Now is not the time for half measures. It is the time for a revolution.” | b. French president Jacques Chirac |
| 3. “The question is, what can we do now? There’s very little we can do about arresting the process.” | a. Anote Tong, president of the Pacific island nation of Kiribati |
| 4. “This should compel all of us towards action rather than the paralysis of fear.” | h. Martin Rees, president of the United Kingdom’s Royal Society |
| 5. “Now it’s time for us — the policymakers — to do our jobs.” | i. Bart Gordon, Democratic Congressman from Tennessee and chair of the US House Committee on Science |
| 6. “This is a group of climate experts attempting to reach a scientific consensus. It doesn’t commit governments to any course of action.” | g. Pradipto Ghosh, senior official at India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests |
| 7. “For sure, humans cause global warming!” | c. Headline from China’s Xinhua news agency |
| 8. “Let’s be realistic. You can only run power stations in a modern Western economy on fossil fuel, or, in time, nuclear power.” | d. Australian prime minister John Howard, whose country has not ratified the Kyoto protocol |
| 9. “Those who continue to ignore the threat will be doing the greatest disservice imaginable to current and future generations.” | e. Marthinus van Schalkwyk, environmental affairs minister for South Africa |
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Below is the list of the ten articles in Nature's "Special Report" of February 8, 2007 in response to the IPPC's report on climate change.