Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming.
Interpretation
A call to action regarding the urgent need to address global warming based on scientific consensus.
In this quote, Al Gore highlights the unprecedented collaborative effort of scientists worldwide who have come together to study and understand the dire implications of global warming. He stresses that a strong consensus has emerged, indicating that without immediate and concerted action to mitigate its effects, humanity will face severe and catastrophic consequences that could fundamentally threaten our existence and the environment.
In practice
In a presentation about climate policy, one could say, 'As Al Gore pointed out, two thousand scientists warn us of the imminent dangers of global warming.'
Global warming is real and human activity is the main cause. The consequences are mainly negative and headed toward catastrophic, unless we act. However, the good news is that we can meet this challenge. It is not too late, and we have everything we need to get started.
The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.
I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.
We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.
We've learned that musical ability is actually not one ability but a set of abilities, a dozen or more. Through brain damage, you can lose one component and not necessarily lose the others. You can lose rhythm and retain pitch, for example, that kind of thing.
Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes diseased at the core. Not only science, but man. The will to truth, pure and unadulterated, is among the essential conditions of his existence; if the standard is compromised he easily becomes a kind of tragic caricature of himself.
Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process
It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.
Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.
The revolution which began with the creation of quantum theory and relativity theory can only be finished with their unification into a single theory that can give us a single, comprehensive picture of nature.
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