Global warming is causing increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms around the world, demonstrating that climate change is real. As Elizabeth Kolbert notes, by the time most people feel the effects of global warming in their daily lives, it will be too late to prevent larger, potentially catastrophic changes. Barack Obama states that man-made natural disasters are a frightening new phenomenon caused by climate change. Both Arnold Schwarzenegger and Al Gore argue that the warnings about global warming have been clear for a long time and that inaction will deepen the global climate crisis.

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5. " People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can feel in the course of their daily lives, it will be too late to prevent much larger, potentially catastrophic changes" -Elizabeth Kolbert

8. All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. Barack Obama

11. "We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late. The science is clear.The global warming debate is over." Arnold Schwarzenegger

14. "The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences. " Al Gore

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