Quotes
- Sea levels are expected to rise as a result of global warming with adverse effects on many people living in coastal areas, although the patterns may not be uniform around the globe.
- Sea-level rise projections for 2100 are several tens of centimetres above 1990 levels but beyond 2100 sea level will continue to rise for centuries after greenhouse gas concentrations have stabilised.
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Famous quotes containing the word quotes:
“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say “I think,” “I am,” but quotes some saint or sage.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. What he quotes, he fills with his own voice and humour, and the whole cyclopedia of his table-talk is presently believed to be his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I quote another man’s saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)