The correct sources of the quotations posted with this update: | |
| 1. "What we need to do is nothing short of decarbonizing the entire global economy." | E. Mohamed Nasheed, the Maldives' president, in New York Times magazine, May 10, 2009. |
| 2. "We call for a public health movement that frames the threat of climate change for humankind as a health issue." | A. Anthony Costello et al, authors of "Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change," released in Lancet, May 16, 2009, issue. |
| 3. "Too many doctors have been silent for too long about the importance of climate change to the future of health and health services." | F. Editors of Lancet, in the editorial, "A Commission on Climate Change," May 16, 2009. |
| 4. "We're trying to give them phrases that work. If you call it 'clean energy dividend' ... almost anything other than 'cap and trade,' you'll get people responding a lot more favorably." | C. Robert Perkowitz, president of ecoAmerica, a nonprofit poll organization (see article). |
| 5. "The geology is complex, but it boils down to this: Relieved of billions of tons of glacial weight, the land has risen much as a cushion regains its shape after someone gets up from a couch. The land is ascending so fast that the rising seas - a ubiquitous byproduct of global warming - cannot keep pace." | B. Cornelia Dean, The New York Times, May 18, 2009, in "As Alaska Glaciers Melt, It's Land That's Rising." |
| 6. "The real debate among journalists about possible forms of payment (subscriptions, NPR-style donations, iTunes-style micropayments, foundation grants) is inside baseball. So is the acrimonious sniping between old media and new. The real question is for the public, not journalists: Does it want to pony up for news, whatever the media that prevail?" | D. Frank Rich, The New York Times, in "The American Press on Suicide Watch," May 10, 2009 (see article). |
May 19, 2009